John Roos Quotes
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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My health is fine.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.
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Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.
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Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
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Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!
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People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
