Keith Johnstone Quotes
If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.
Keith Johnstone
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
La'Porsha Renae
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
Nathalie Sarraute
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
Adam DeVine
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
Carine Roitfeld
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
Laura Linney
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
Yann Martel
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
Idi Amin
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But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
Laura Bush
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
V. S. Naipaul
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Xun Kuang
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It costs you something to do good!
Zora Neale Hurston
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Spend all your time waitingFor that second chance,For a break that would make it OK.There's always some reasonTo feel not good enough;And it's hard at the end of the day.I need some distraction,Oh, beautiful release.Memory seeps through my veins.Let me be empty,Oh weightless and maybeI'll find some peace tonight.
Sarah McLachlan
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It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
Wilbur Smith
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If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.
Marv Levy
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So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
Alvin Lee
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If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.
Keith Johnstone
