Jon Bellion Quotes
People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that you find wrong with yourself. Because that's how we really are.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
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The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
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I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.
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My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.
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I have never had another job and I don't have a mortgage.
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People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that you find wrong with yourself. Because that's how we really are.
