John Calvin Quotes
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
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All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.
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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
