John Roos Quotes
Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.
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I go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to keep my finger on the pulse of snowboarding.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.
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Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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I'm a good person.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.
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Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
