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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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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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The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.
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When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
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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.'
