John Rampton Quotes
While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.
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I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.
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The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.
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Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.
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While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.
