John Selden Quotes
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
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Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
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I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
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Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
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'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.
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I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
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Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
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There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30.
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I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
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People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie.
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I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better.
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Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.
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Never tell your resolution beforehand.
