John William Cummings (Johnny Ramone) Quotes
People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I don't feel closeted.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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You'll never find me in a gym.
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I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La Tengo and Bedhead. There are other things too, like Pavement. They're a great band, with really good lyrics. But generally, I'm not overwhelmed by the state of indie-rock.
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
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Being an ex-child star is not a given.
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But I sense a fair amount of experience in the room, along with the youth.
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People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
