John Paul DeJoria Quotes
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
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News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.
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Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.
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Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.
