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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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
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Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.
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I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
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If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
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I don't want to be a 'me' guy.
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Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.
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I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.
