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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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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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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Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
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Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.
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Neurons are living cells with a metabolism. And they need glucose in order to function. Glucose is the fuel of the brain, just like gasoline is the fuel of your car.
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Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.
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Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.
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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.
