John Knoll Quotes
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I'd even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.
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[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
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People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
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I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
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It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one.
