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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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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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 had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.
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Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality.
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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.
