John Ridley Quotes
Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I've always had problems with guys!
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
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I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.
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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
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Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.
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No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.
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Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet.
