John Hillcoat Quotes
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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I am definitely a person of color.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.
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Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.
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Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.
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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.
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I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.
