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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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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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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I'm here to play football.
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
