John Knoll Quotes
On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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You know if you're in Rome, live in the Roman way. I grew up there, I was born there, and so I should follow its guidelines, live like a Korean. And I really love Korea. I grew up listening to Korean music, and was able to get to where I am because of it.
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It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.
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I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader.
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But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.
