John Ridley Quotes
It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'
Quotes to Explore
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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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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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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My proudest moment is when I'm part of a good film, when people are touched by it.
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Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah
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There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world. ...Space is nothing apart from the things that exist. ...If we take out all the words we are not left with an empty sentence, we are left with nothing.
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I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.
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Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error.
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It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'
