Johnny Van Zant Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
