John W. Gardner Quotes
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
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'The rules of chivalry, my lord, ensure my protection.' 'Chivalry? Chivalry? I have heard it mentioned in songs, madame, but this is war. Our task is to punish the followers of Charles of Blois for rebelling against their lawful lord. Punishment and chivalry do not mix.'
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It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.
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The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
