Jon Favreau Quotes
I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.
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I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.
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My diet is not unorthodox. I just eat like anyone else - that's just how I am. Everyone is different. It is just my metabolism that keeps me this slim.
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I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
