John Wesley Shipp Quotes

I had delusions of being a 'serious actor,' and I wanted to pursue those delusions.

John Wesley Shipp

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• The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Best
  • New
  • New York

• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Guy

• Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • House

• Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • American
  • Serious
  • Military

• When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Serious

• Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Joker

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Serious
  • Green
  • Leader

• My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

  

  K. Flay
  • Serious
  • Died
  • Inheritance

• You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • You
  • Serious
  • Witty

• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • People
  • Reality
  • Serious

• Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Serious
  • Just
  • Just Because

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Good
  • Serious

• Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore some responsibility for the clients' welfare.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Money
  • Responsibility

• I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Democracy

• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Power
  • Serious

• I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Good
  • Work
  • High

• How do we keep it up? Because that's what we do; we're musicians, and we love to play and make music. And with every album, we get better, and with every tour, we get better.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Music

• Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.

  

  T.R. Reid
  • World

• I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I had delusions of being a 'serious actor,' and I wanted to pursue those delusions.

  

  John Wesley Shipp
  • Serious