JP Cooper (John Paul Cooper) Quotes
It’s not something that I always take into consideration but it is interesting to see who people would like me to work with. I think it’s something that I enjoy, it gives me a lot of freedom working with other people, particularly people who work in different genres.
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I studied Morse code.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.
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He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.
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Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being (a person who feels happy or sad).
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Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.
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And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.
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Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, 'Oh yes, you're so right,' but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!
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I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
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I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.
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Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.
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I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.
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El Cholo is a great coach: he asks a lot of his players and demands a lot of intensity. If your guard is down even a bit in training, Cholo tells you put extra effort in quickly.
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We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.
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Justinian and Theodora’s time in power was also marked by the number of refugees they welcomed in to Constantinople. Struggling, homeless, stateless travellers came from East and West fleeing from the Persian and ‘barbarian’ troubles. Many arrived displaced from the Danubian and Gothic provinces by Huns and Goths; victims of Vandal atrocities had had their tongues cut out. The imperial pair built a hospice for refugees. The city was starting to build her reputation, which she still holds today, as a place of refuge.
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Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.
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How we started the game and how we're going to finish the game, are just extraordinary. Polar opposites.
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Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.
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It’s not something that I always take into consideration but it is interesting to see who people would like me to work with. I think it’s something that I enjoy, it gives me a lot of freedom working with other people, particularly people who work in different genres.
