John Flavel Quotes
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
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A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
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Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.
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Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.
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Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
