John Roos Quotes
For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
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The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.
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The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
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Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
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For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.
