John Lee Hancock Quotes
You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.
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We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.
