John Singleton Quotes
I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
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I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.
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I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie Christine, and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.
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I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.
