John Wozniak Quotes
No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of us every day. You feel things every day, no matter where you are. So that's what I write about.
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Because my hair is curly, I used to do all the straighteners, the Japanese this and the Brazilian that. And at the end of the day, your hair ends up not having a texture, not having the body - no shine. You're pretty much frying your hair. So understand the type of hair you have and do the best with what you have.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.
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What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
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No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.
