Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes
My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.
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Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
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Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
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My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.
