Jon Tenney Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
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I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
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Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
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Pain is love.
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You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
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But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
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You've got athletes who are politicians, venture capitalists, musicians, rappers, etcetera. It's becoming more of a popular thing to have other interests outside of basketball, and I think that's normal. Just like when people work day jobs, they have interest in sports, they do investments, they do all these other types of things.
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Mike Nichols got me my Equity card.
