John White Geary Quotes
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.
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I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
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I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.
