John Singleton Quotes
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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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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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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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I believe honestly that I can talk. I believe that I have the ability to reason, I have logic, I have compassion, I have understanding. If we talk there's no problem you know what I'm saying. But that's not what happened. People used what they heard in media and that's how they come at me, and then you know we got a clash.
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Bless our Mountain Greenery home!In a mountain greeneryWhere God paints the sceneryJust two crazy people together
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A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
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So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
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Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.
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The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.
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Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.
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You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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You can only really write about what you know about.
