Alan Johnson Quotes
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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Back in 1993, I was studying in Delhi, and I had a girlfriend. I had never touched a girl before that in my entire life. One day, I decided to go out with her to a garden. We were sitting beside each other, and I just glanced around to see if anyone was looking at us, and I put my hand over hers. I thought love started in this way.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
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I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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Ozzy Osbourne has his bats, and I have that darn 'convert them to Christianity' quote. Some may not like what I said, but I'm still waiting to hear a better suggestion.
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I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.
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Coal has had a resurgence - it will be a major aspect of the energy review.
