Lynn Johnston Quotes
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
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My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.
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The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
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In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.
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And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
