Jon Tenney Quotes
All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
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Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
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All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.
