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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Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.
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We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency.
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People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.
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Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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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.
