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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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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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
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We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit.
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Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.
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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
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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.
