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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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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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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Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.
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A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.
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The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.
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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
