John Varvatos Quotes
I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.
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To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
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I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
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Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
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There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.
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When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
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To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.
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My life is an open book.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
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I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
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I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.
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Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.
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I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.
