Van Johnson Quotes
Keep the calls coming, ... You might be saving your own home, your own car, your own property tomorrow if you do it for your neighbor today.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings out the best in me, both personally and professionally. I think we have a Karmic connection and I hope he'll agree!
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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
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I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.
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We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.
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Keep the calls coming, ... You might be saving your own home, your own car, your own property tomorrow if you do it for your neighbor today.
