John Witherspoon Quotes
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.
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The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.
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The truth is, the people here know nothing of the republican Negro hate prevalent in our glorious land. They measure and esteem men according to their moral and intellectual worth, and not according to the color of their skin. Whatever may be said of the aristocracies here, there is none based on the color of a man's skin.
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Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
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Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
