John Knoll Quotes
I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
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Sixty slutz all of them dying from asphyxia/after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippie cup
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I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
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Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.
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Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about democracy in Iraq, not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.
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I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.