Mike Johanns Quotes
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I love playing odd roles.
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Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Taking care of yourself is so important.
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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
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Don't want terrorism in US? Stop importing Muslims!
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The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death!
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
