John McTiernan Quotes
In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
John McTiernan
Quotes to Explore
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
Pamela Meyer
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
Ferdinand Buisson
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
Madhuri Dixit
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
Dan Gilbert
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
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I just wanted to go to New York and be on Broadway, but then I was accepted by Juilliard, where they trained me in classical voice. It was great in the end, but at the time, I thought, 'What am I doing here? This is not my path.' But it was absolutely my path and where I was meant to be.
Audra McDonald
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…a fetid cabaret with a beer-bar, two houses of ill-fame disguised as coffee-shops…
Anthony Burgess
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I have never in my life let a man disrespect me, verbally or physically, and that will never change. I feel very strongly about this because it's something my mother instilled in me and that I have instilled in my daughters.
Yolanda Hadid
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My goal is to keep him away from that and play the match on my terms so that I can be aggressive and not hesitate.
Milos Raonic
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In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
John McTiernan
