John Zimmerman Quotes
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.
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My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
