#ten

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#been #career #during #every #false

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#duties #feel #i #i feel #incompetent

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#certain #certain extent #everything #extent #fairytale

The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#again #back #come #get #getting

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise. ↗

— Darrell Johnson

#ball #bat #come #just #listen

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor. ↗

— Don Johnson

#even #good #good actor #i #intended

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of! ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#added #advantage #brought #came #course

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#because #comes #good #intelligence #intention