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John Gavin Quotes

I may have had some banal roles, but they were never embarrassing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 8, 1931 - February 9, 2018

Topics

Never May Embarrassing Some Roles

We've got to stand up for ourselves. That is, draw some lines, make it clear that after awhile, we're not going to get bullied or pushed around, because I think there are some in China who want to push the United States around. They want to bully us.

Stand Up Think Stand Push Want Up

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

People You Want Yes Whole Around

Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But yeah, when the other doors open, why not walk through?

Music Walk Grateful I Am Singing

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?

Christian Scott

Music People Black Place Play Jazz

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Arianna Huffington

Alone Game Chance Class Become

You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.

Money People America You Need

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

Anthony Horowitz

School Me Three Teachers Brilliant

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

Time Game Fighting Long You Acting

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Dinner Bible Christmas Always Read

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

War Curious Treat Help You Down

When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.

Dance Soul Present My Soul Escape

Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Failure Today History Small Better

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