John Slattery Quotes
You learn pretty quickly: if you fall in love with your edit, you're bound to be heartbroken because it will all be re-cut.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.
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When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
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There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn't dating anyone. But now I'm 36, and I still don't date anyone.
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You learn pretty quickly: if you fall in love with your edit, you're bound to be heartbroken because it will all be re-cut.
