John Glen Quotes
Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Imagination rules the world.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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History's a resource.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
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A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director.
