John Verity Quotes
I'm like a lot of people in my generation. Eventually I went to get an electric guitar.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
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I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
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I do think that every generation has its unique story.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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I'm like a lot of people in my generation. Eventually I went to get an electric guitar.
