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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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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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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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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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I didn't really distinguish between genre and not-genre as a kid, until I made the transition to adult fantasy via Terry Brooks.
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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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North Korea is a unique socialist country in that its ruling ideology is conveyed through what is written about its leaders, not by them, and the message could hardly be simpler. Foreigners bad, Koreans good, Leader best.
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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.
