John Henry Carver Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I'm not saving lives.
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I do not support a livable wage.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.
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Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
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I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.'
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No, I don’t understand him, but he is worth listening to.
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Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health.
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To this day my seat on a saddle or on the back of a horse is as secure and tireless as in a rocking chair, and far more pleasurable. Sometimes, in later years, when I found myself suddenly on a strange horse in a trooper's saddle, flying for life or liberty in front of pursuit, I blessed the baby lessons of the wild gallops among the beautiful colts.
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Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
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The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
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Each consumer has the power of their wallet and their voice. They can exercise that.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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When my dad died, I had to go to therapy.
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I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
