John Zorn Quotes
Anything that gets in the way of my focus to create gets cut out of my life. It's not easy. Sometimes it's family. Sometimes it's friends. Sometimes it's the ability to have a relationship.
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I have many, many gay friends.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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If I texted somebody that I was having a down day, in seconds I would have somebody either call me or show up at my door.
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For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
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It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.
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Anything that gets in the way of my focus to create gets cut out of my life. It's not easy. Sometimes it's family. Sometimes it's friends. Sometimes it's the ability to have a relationship.
