John Wesley Shipp Quotes
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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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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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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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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You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.
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When I'm in bed with a woman, my favorite move is a wrestling hold called the lip lock.
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My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.
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If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.
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My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.
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Change does happen, you know?
