John David Washington Quotes
In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.
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Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
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The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
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Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.
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In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
