John Lewis Quotes

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

John Lewis

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I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

Joe Cocker

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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Andrew Greeley

ExperienceMeEnoughKindLiving

Often, particularly towards the end of the process, I think of myself less as a theatre director and more as someone who just directs the traffic. My job is to move the ideas and bits of the show into the places where they work best. Sometimes my job is also to say, 'No.'

Robert Lepage

WorkMyselfBestJobIdeasTheatre

Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.

Tory Lanez

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I liked the sort of YA classics. I loved 'The Chronicles of Narnia.' I loved 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander, who is amazing. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in.

Robin Sloan

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You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

Robert Wise

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When I was on 'Terra Nova', I had an Australian iPhone and a U.S. iPhone, different time zones, just a couple differences in the machines, but I was able to keep the international aspect of things in order. But I lost my U.S. iPhone right before I left Australia. Somebody's got it somewhere out there. Send it back?

Jason O'Mara

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Weekends are a real luxury for me because I'm usually working.

Clare Balding

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I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

Bobby McFerrin

MeBarMonthPianoStartedWorking

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

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After 9/11, I had just become an American citizen, and I remember sitting in front of my TV set watching the news of the attacks, in tears. I remember thinking to myself, 'Nothing is ever going to be the same in this country for people who look like me.'

Pramila Jayapal

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As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.

Sebastian Thrun

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