John Grogan Quotes
I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
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I have selective hearing.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I hate competition.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult.
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I screamed aloud that I was not afraid; that I never could be afraid; and others screamed with me for solace. We swore to one another that the city was exactly the same, and still alive...
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As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
