John Landis Quotes
It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I mean, some of them are great, most of them are filler.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I never was a very good singer.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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My heart just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
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Whether you like me, or hate me, this is me.
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Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I mean, some of them are great, most of them are filler.
