Jon Favreau Quotes
I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
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I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.
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But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
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I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
