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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There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.
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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
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I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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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.
