John Knoll Quotes

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

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• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Kind

• As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

  

  Randall Park
  • Comedy
  • See
  • Stereotypes

• We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • America
  • Freedom

• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Character

• My instinct is to be very controlling.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Very
  • Instinct
  • Controlling

• We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Always
  • Angels
  • saw

• When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Learn

• Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Very
  • Been
  • Israel

• It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Great
  • Different
  • Women

• The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Work
  • Action
  • Third

• You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Up
  • Change
  • Win

• I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Start

• I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • People
  • Important
  • Happy

• In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Enemy

• There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Color

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Trying

• My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.

  

  Diplo
  • Job

• If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Nature
  • Suffering
  • Paradise

• That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Universe
  • Dreams
  • Harmony

• As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

  

  John Knoll