Johnny Mathis Quotes
First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.
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I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies.
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I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.
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I got to tell you, guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities - how can we offend guys that actually have anal sex? Don't you think that might offend some of us who think that's despicable?
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First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.
