John Wesley Shipp Quotes
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
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Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.
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I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
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The thing about Parsons compared to the other schools is that it really teaches you how to be a designer, whereas some of the other schools teach you to sketch or teach you the technical skills. But the curriculum at Parsons when I was there was how do you put a collection together, as well as all the technical stuff. It's the best training.
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If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.
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A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
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My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened.
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Change does happen, you know?
