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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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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I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.
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Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.
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When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
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A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
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You can only really write about what you know about.
