John Slattery Quotes
I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I love all things Christmas.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on.
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I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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The past has to inform the present.
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I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.
