Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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We take the sense of touch for granted. Think about it: Without it, you're missing one of the basic senses that enables you to interact with the world.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.
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One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.
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I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
