Josh McDowell Quotes
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
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It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.
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The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
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I’m not anything that you think I am.
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Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
