John Petrucci (John Peter Petrucci) Quotes
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.
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I chose my own path because that was the only way.
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In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.
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We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!
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Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
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Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
