John Carpenter Quotes
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.
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I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.
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My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
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It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.
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His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.
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I went to the Talladega 500 with a girl I had just met. She was very sweet with childlike qualities. No titties! (p. 113).
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People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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I have moved on. I have moved forward.
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Some people like what he does, some people don't. We were being very aggressive about taking the next step for this team to win a Super Bowl, by recognizing what we were going to have to deal with in what was arguably the best player in free agency. Rewards are usually proportional to the risk you take. Yeah, this is a risk.
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I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.
