John Singleton Quotes
I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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The only reason to do a 'SpongeBob' on Broadway is if it's gonna bring something new to the brand, something new to 'SpongeBob,' and also something innovative to theater and to Broadway.
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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
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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.
