Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I never really learned photography.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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God is everywhere.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again — but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
