Jon Favreau Quotes
I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
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I watch too much TV.
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Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?
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I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.
