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 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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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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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.
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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.
