Jon Johansen Quotes
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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I love to perform live.
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I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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If my music can change someone's mood for the better even a little bit, that's amazing.
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.
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My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.
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I've always had Paul Smith wallets for some reason.
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Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
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The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.
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There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.
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We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
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I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
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I don't like closed systems.
