John Calvin Quotes
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.
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Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
