Calvin Johnson Quotes
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
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I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!
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People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
