John Singleton Quotes
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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He says every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.
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Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.
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There were really funny characteristics about this guy Richard Nixon, chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
