John Knoll Quotes

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

John Knoll

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• There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Thing

• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Years
  • Four

• Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Mean

• My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Kids
  • College

• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Desire

• When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Song
  • Start

• I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Actor

• No one wants to read an apologetic book.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Book
  • Read
  • Apologetic

• Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Products
  • Lawsuits
  • Prod

• I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Up
  • Moving

• Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Brain
  • Yourself
  • Praise

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Faith

• Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Single
  • Said

• I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • You
  • Me
  • Like

• When the man governed by self-interest, the god of this world, does not renounce it but merely refines it by the use of reason and extends it beyond the constricting boundary of the present, he is represented (Luke XVI, 3-9) as one who, in his very person as servant, defrauds his master self- interest and wins from him sacrifices in behalf of 'duty.'

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • God
  • Present

• Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Real
  • Dying

• Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Hero

• I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Energy
  • Responsibility
  • Focus

• 'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Quality
  • Bitter

• Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for.

  

  Elizabeth Gillies
  • Life
  • Long
  • Movie

• I think you've got to be able to relate to what teens are going through.

  

  Elaine Welteroth

• In terms of scripted shows, I love 'Mad Men.' Cinematically, it's one of the most beautiful shows ever made. I love the subtlety of the acting and the storytelling, and I love that they don't think the audience is dumb. They make a great show, and you figure it out, and it leaves you with so many questions - it's just great.

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Great
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

  

  John Knoll