John Carpenter Quotes
It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Being evil is easy.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I can't seem to write young enough anymore.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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Madonna is 'a living, breathing cash register'.
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I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
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It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
