John Rampton Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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At Mass General in January 2007, Dr. Loeffler's team attached a ring-shaped metal frame to my head with four pins. Then I went to the radiation center, where they strapped me to the treatment table and secured the head frame so that I couldn't move.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
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I didn't change the world.
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
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I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.
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We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.
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I've come to love making videos for my company.
