John Gourley Quotes
Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.
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Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.
