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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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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The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
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I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
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My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.
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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
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Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.
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I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
