Lynn Johnston Quotes
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
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If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.
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πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα
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The dead govern the living.
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Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, 'taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power.' History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
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Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.
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To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.
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The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
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I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob Dylan is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like.
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I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
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You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.
