Jon Tenney Quotes
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.
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If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
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Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
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We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
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I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.
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He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.
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'Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow'.
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It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.
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I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
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Deute den lieblichen Schein und mache Ernst aus dem Spiel, so wirst du das Centrum fassen und die verehrte Kunst in höherm Lichte wieder finden.
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All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life.
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I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.
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The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.
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I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.
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Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.
