Anjelah Johnson Quotes
People pay their hard-earned money to come and watch me perform live. That's a blessing.
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
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Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
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People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.
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When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
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When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.
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I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.
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Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
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Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.
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People pay their hard-earned money to come and watch me perform live. That's a blessing.
