Clark Johnson Quotes
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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There is a reason for everything.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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There are three kinds of people-the living, the dead, and those at sea.
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You lie so well I could never even tell what were facts in your artful rearranging But I came back for more and you laughed in my face and you rubbed it in cause I’m a Labrador and I run when the gun drops the dove again
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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
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I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.
