Vernon Howard Quotes
When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
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Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.
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In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
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I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.
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When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
