John Lee Hancock Quotes
You pick a project. You think, 'I can succeed at this. I can help them. I can make it so that they'll want to call me again the next time.'
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
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These are the final rites of the funeral of the Cold War, with Russia as a friend and ally and no longer as an enemy.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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You pick a project. You think, 'I can succeed at this. I can help them. I can make it so that they'll want to call me again the next time.'
