Jon Favreau Quotes
I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.
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And always, there was the magic of learning things.
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
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I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.
