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.

Joe Johnston

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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.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Brother

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Today
  • Fashion
  • Importance

• Life is a dead-end street.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Street
  • Life Is A

• 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.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Different
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Student

• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • You
  • Repetition

• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Go
  • Moving On

• I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Directors
  • Top

• 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.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • England
  • Outsider

• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • May
  • Suffering
  • Deep

• Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• 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.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Peoples

• There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
  • Independence

• 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.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  

  James Rollins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• Once the telephone had been invented, it was only a matter of time before the police got in on the new technology and, first in Glasgow and then in London, the police box was born. Here a police officer in need of assistance could find a telephone link to Scotland Yard, a dry space to do “paperwork” and, in certain extreme cases, a life of adventure through space and time.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Technology
  • Telephone
  • Police Officer

• Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Long
  • War

• 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.

  

  Joe Johnston