John Singleton Quotes
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
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I like working on my birthday, so I always do.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
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Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
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The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
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Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.
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You can only really write about what you know about.
