John Knoll Quotes
Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'
Quotes to Explore
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.
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I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.
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Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.
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Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'
