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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Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. But they have really different uses and advantages.
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The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
