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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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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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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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. We were the ones that worked with Saddam Hussein. The United States worked with bin Laden.
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I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.
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To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.
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I'm a 20 year old white boy residing on the Eastside of Cleveland, OH, and I am loud and obnoxious troubled youth that spends weeknights pissing parents off by turning their daughter's room into a giant orgy-fest.
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
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Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
