Jon Favreau Quotes
Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was definitely fixated on his body of work.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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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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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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For my skin, Neutrogena dry body oil is heaven!
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.
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The older I get, the better I was.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was definitely fixated on his body of work.
