Ian St. John Quotes
Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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Winning excuses everything.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
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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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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
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New York has always embraced me.
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After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
