Calvin Johnson Quotes
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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
