John Requa Quotes
How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room.
Quotes to Explore
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
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In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.
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I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'
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It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
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How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room.
