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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We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
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Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.
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The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
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Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
