Jon Favreau Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.
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It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.
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I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.
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The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.
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I'm of a generation of director that came up understanding special effects.
