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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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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Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
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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 few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.
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You can only really write about what you know about.
