John Wooden Quotes
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
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The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.
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The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.
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... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
