Darren Johnson Quotes
Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
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The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.
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The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
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I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I wanted to pursue acting after college.
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I think in the '80s, we certainly wrestled with what was the role of 'Playboy Magazine' in a post-sexual revolution, post-feminist world.
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I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.
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I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
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I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.
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I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.
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I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.
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The bit that I've always loved about modeling is show season: the hype, the chaos, the calm just before you walk out. It's your moment - especially when there's no one before you.
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Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
