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'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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It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.
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I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
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I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.
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The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
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I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
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I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.
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I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
