Jonny Weston Quotes

I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'

Jonny Weston

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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

Jesse Jackson

OpportunityAmerican DreamLawYou

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

ChildrenParentsImperfectionsSome

I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.

Max Lucado

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I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.

Jeffrey DeMunn

VisionMeWorldThinkCreatingPlay

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Tom Hanks

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

Michael Moore

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I think, as an actress, people get on your case if you do the same thing over and over again. But if you get too far away from that, people don't like that, either.

Lizzy Caplan

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I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

Lloyd Dorfman

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I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.

Judith Miller

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You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.

Chris Hemsworth

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I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

Christopher Koch

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