Jonathan Evison Quotes
I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
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I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.
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There's more power in the simpler things, I think.
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How we preserve time for family is one of the most significant issues we face in most cultures.
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I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.
