Jan de Bont Quotes
We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
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It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.
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I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.
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We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!
