John Requa Quotes
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.
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Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.
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I’ve experienced this as a songwriter working with, and helping develop, new artists. This is truly a page out of a new artist book that has a song that blows up and then is just trying to play catch-up. That really is the story of Chase in this first season. He’s not even thinking about who he is as an artist, he’s being told and given these songs.
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Once you have the gallows, you’ll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.
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There's money to be made, and I want mine.
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I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.
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Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.
