Demetrious Johnson Quotes
I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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This love is silent.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
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I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.
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How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?
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I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.
