Noel John Whittaker Quotes
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
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I like challenges. I think that's important.
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Okay, so why was the plant built in the first place? It was built to produce products. Why can’t that be the goal? Jonah said it wasn’t. But I don’t see why it isn’t the goal. We’re a manufacturing company. That means we have to manufacture something, doesn’t it? Isn’t that the whole point, to produce products? Why else are we here?
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The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
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Silently a flower blooms,
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The road to achievement starts with a goal.
