Joel David Moore Quotes
I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.
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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.
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I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail while scuba diving. I like to throw myself fully into projects and adventures, which is probably how I managed to publish a book in the first place.
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For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.
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I believe in the magic and authority of words.
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I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.
