David Leslie Johnson Quotes
Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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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 love my mom and dad.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.
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I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
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Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.
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We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.
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The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line.
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Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing.
