John Carney Quotes
I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.
