Calvin Johnson Quotes

Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.

Calvin Johnson

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• I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
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• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
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• Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
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• I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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• Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Almost
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• Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Friends
  • Earth
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• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Writing
  • Book
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• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Game
  • Cool

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Friends
  • Place
  • Come

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• Center is a very tough position to play.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Very
  • Tough

• The farther you enter into the truth, the deeper it is.

  

  Bankei Yōtaku
  • Truth
  • Deeper
  • Enter

• I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • People
  • Father
  • Funeral

• Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Funny
  • Ironic

• Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

  

  Treat Williams
  • College
  • Sound
  • Accomplish

• I'm fortunate to be in a position to support nonprofits that align with my personal priorities, which include women's health issues, cancer research, environmental concerns, and education for women and children domestically and globally.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Women
  • Children
  • Education

• Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Video Games