John Knoll Quotes
You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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Young Indians are energetic and ambitious, have lots of ideas. They work around the difficult situation they face here. But the big challenge is to market products and services to the West, because costs there aren't coming down.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.
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I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.
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We must remember to enjoy ourselves.
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Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
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Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.
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You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.
