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John Gordon Sinclair Quotes

I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.

John Gordon Sinclair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1962

Topics

Age Day Me Thought You One Day

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

John Noble

Future Character You Know Need Just

I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.

Robert Lepage

Father Great Past I Am Thought Back

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.

Ann Coulter

God Plants Trees Earth Animals Over

I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story.

John Tiffany

Story Easy Audience Connect Aspire

There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.

Sonakshi Sinha

Father Attitude Direction Think Push

I remember a good friend of mine whose father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 40 years with just a high school degree. That was a remarkable pathway to prosperity that sustained generations of working families.

Tom Perez

Good Friend Father School Remember

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

Lois Capps

Children Security See Chemotherapy

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

Joyce Maynard

Myself Think Realistic Opera Soap

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Deng Xiaoping

Politics Political Election Office

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

Donald Trump

Great Time World Doing Worth More

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

Chester W. Nimitz

Faith Relax Say Defend Defense Must

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Chris Stapleton

Best Writing Song Process Look Goal