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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I feel the hot winds of karma driving me. Nevertheless I remain here. My training was correct: I must not shrink from the clear white light, for if I do, I will once more re-enter the cycle of birth and death, never knowing freedom, never obtaining release. The veil of maya will fall once more.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans.
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As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.
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The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.
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You can only really write about what you know about.
