Lynn Johnston Quotes
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
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I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
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If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
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For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!
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I talk bilingual.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
