Joe Johnston Quotes
I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Life is a dead-end street.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
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I swept the marble chambers, But you sent me down below. You kept me from believing Until you let me know: That I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, You forbid delivery.
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I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.
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The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
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I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear.
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Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.
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When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.
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I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.
