Allen Johnson Quotes
I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
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I believed I was invincible.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
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Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!
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I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.
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I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.
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I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
