John Slattery Quotes
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
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I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
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Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
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Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
