Paul Johnson (Paul Bede Johnson) Quotes
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.
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As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.
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I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.
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All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
