John Burnham Schwartz Quotes
It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
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Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome when you edit it together. It's great!
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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Craft is everything.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
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Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.
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However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.
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When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
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I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
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Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.
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Anonymity breeds irresponsibility.
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Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.
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Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.
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It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
