John Landis Quotes
After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.
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We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
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I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.
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You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
