Alan Johnson Quotes
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.
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The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
