Calvin Johnson Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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I want to make smart choices.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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I've got to win every race.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
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There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe.
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When you get drafted this high, you want to prove that you're not a bust, ... You want to prove that it was worth their while.
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
