John C. Maxwell Quotes
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
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I do movies I would go to see.
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I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.
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In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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'Super Contra' was the game I fell in love with. I played and beat that game with my mom.
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Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.
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My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.
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I never want to lose sight of my roots... A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life.
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Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.
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It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.
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I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
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Keeping score is for games, not friendships.
