Jason Statham Quotes
A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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When you do one thing, people think it's right or wrong. Maybe half-half.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
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It is not possible to manage life and maintain homeostatic balance without data on the current state of the organism’s body.”9 Damasio calls these housekeeping areas of the brain the “proto-self,” because they create the “wordless knowledge” that underlies our conscious sense of self.
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A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.
