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.
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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.
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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.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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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.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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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.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.
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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.
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In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
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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.
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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.
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Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it.
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Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don't want to seem like the guy that 'has to call his girlfriend.' It's just boys growing up.
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What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.
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I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
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You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?
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Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
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As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.
