John Connolly Quotes
Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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I wanted to make a video for the holidays, but none of the traditional holiday songs were moving me.
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In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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Everyone's path is different. It's not always about money - sometimes it's about the journey.
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I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.
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Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.
