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'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
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I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
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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.
