Josh Bowman (Joshua Tobias Bowman) Quotes
Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.
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I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
