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But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk. ↗

— John Lone

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I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over. ↗

— John Lone

#bright #clued #educated #enough #few

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother. ↗

— John Lone

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I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity. ↗

— John Lone

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I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say. ↗

— John Lone

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I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way. ↗

— John Lone

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I'm not involved with the female world. ↗

— John Lone

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So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company. ↗

— John Lone

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him. ↗

— Earl Long

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