John Morley Quotes
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that Gerry Mulligan's sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.
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The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.
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There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
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Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
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Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.
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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
