John Benjamin Hickey Quotes

My neighborhood now is all 21-year-old European supermodels. I go to the international newsstand on the corner, and they're all looking for their pictures in 'Italian Vogue.'

John Benjamin Hickey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 25, 1963

Topics

LookingPicturesGoNowCorner

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

Jennie Finch

MeNeverCoachTellChampionship

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Anna Friel

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Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

Jeanne Phillips

ThinkRadicalFlaming

My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

John Rocha

CoolLookingGrandmotherDressingUp

I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead.

Sinbad

MoneyStressMeStupidEnoughYear

I want a little black girl to pick up my book one day and see herself as the star. I want her to know that she's beautiful, and she matters, and she can have a crazy, magical adventure even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she can never be Hermione Granger.

Tomi Adeyemi

GirlBeautifulDayAdventureCrazy

I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age.

Roger Daltrey

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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Mary Harris Jones

RailroadStrikeGoldenFarmersWest

I need to maintain my performance levels high for many seasons. I hope I can do that.

Mohamed Salah

HopePerformanceSeasonsI CanNeed

I like to keep some privacy, be a normal person.

Judith Faulkner

PersonPrivacyNormalKeepLike

I didn't know what to expect when we first started touring behind 'Southeastern' because you don't want to lull anybody to sleep or lose their attention. But it's really been incredible how the crowds seem to be just as excited for the slow, sad songs as they are for the old rockers.

Jason Isbell

SadSleepSlowAttentionYouLose

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

Jonathan Miller

TimePeopleBecomeDecided

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