John Elkann Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.
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People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.
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