John Strachan Quotes
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
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When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.
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A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
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Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.
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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
