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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I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.
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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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What's interesting is that younger characters just have a more vibrant, exciting point of view on the world. They are more emotional, they are more dramatic, and they are just electric.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
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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.
