John Grierson Quotes
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
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WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
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If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.
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I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.
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When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.
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However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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I've done it a couple times where I've had fight of the year. It's not what you aspire to.
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
