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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Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
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And thus in all cases it will be found, that although Chance produces irregularities, still the Odds will be infinitely great, that in process of Time, those Irregularities will bear no proportion to the recurrency of that Order which naturally results from Original Design.
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India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
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If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.
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Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band, because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
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Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.
