Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes
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I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.
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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.
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The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.
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To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?
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Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.
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Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.
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Children are primed to take in something of more moral value than they're getting. I know I'm blowing my own horn here, but 'E.T.' had value to it in terms of the feeling about yourself that you walked away with.
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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
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It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.
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Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.
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In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.
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It was just as bad the second time. We just seemed to be out of sync, a step slow. It wasn't just one possession, but continuously.
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Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.
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Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.
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Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.
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I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
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In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.
