John Knoll Quotes
Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference.
Quotes to Explore
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.
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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference.
