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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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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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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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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Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
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'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.And when justice is gone, there's always force.And when force is gone, there's always Mom.Hi Mom!
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The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.
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I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin...My shorts were getting a little tight.
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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
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I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.
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I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.
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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.
