Adam Johnson Quotes
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
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You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.
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I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.
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I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.
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Only death can seperate me from the wrestling world.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
