John Flavel Quotes
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.
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Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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When it came to 'Concussion,' I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower's tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be.
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We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.
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Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
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Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.
