Jan de Bont Quotes

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
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• Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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  • Work
  • Sports

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

  

  Becky G
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• I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

  

  Fairfax Cone
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• I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
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• Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
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  • Music
  • Story

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• My mom choreographed the top Olympians; she's really the queen of ice in her world, so I kind of get my directorial bug from her because she's really good at telling people what to do!

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
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• When you've been part of a show that has made so many people happy and continues to do so to this day, it's hard to resent it, ... Besides that, I'm also known as Maynard, which means I say 'WORK?!?!' for fans almost as much as I say, 'Skipper!'

  

  Bob Denver
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• It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

  

  Pedro Almodovar

• I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

  

  Zbigniew Herbert
  • Experience
  • History
  • Responsibility

• I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

  

  Jan de Bont
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