Johnny Van Zant Quotes
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
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A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
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I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
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I want to be more selfless and look outward.
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Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.
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That's your end goal anyway, is to make the fans happy.
