John Spratt Quotes
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
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Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.
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I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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I think every Internet user likes personalization.
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You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
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People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
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I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.
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Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
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The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
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He was tall and very dark-skinned and he had fabulously blond hair and a voice that could raise bumps on your skin at a hundred meters, or, better still, millimeters.
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The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.
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I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.
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It feels good anytime you beat Texas and Tennessee. Wins over those great coaches are very special.
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We want you to pay attention.
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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
