Johnny Colt Quotes
My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."
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I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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We look at Marvel, but we're not trying to emulate that in any way. In fact, we talked often about how distinctive what we're trying to do with 'Star Wars' is from Marvel. They've been extremely successful in exploiting the characters in that universe, and we have a place. We have the galaxy.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes.
