Daniel Johns Quotes
There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.
