John Lee Hancock Quotes
For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.
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It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.
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What Clint Eastwood meant was when you are directing and starring in a film, there's a temptation to spend more time on the other actors' performances, and then when you get to your own work, you kind of go, "Oh, yeah, well, let's cut that." And he said, "Take your time and make sure you do your work right." It's especially good advice if you're going from one career to another.
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I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.
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For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.
