Jon Jones Quotes
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
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It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.
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Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.
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Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
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You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.
