John Landis Quotes
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.
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When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.
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Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minded. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
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I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
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I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.
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I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'
