Jon Watts Quotes
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'
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It was here that I first saw the light of day; here I received my bride, here my dead lie pillowed on the loving breast of our eternal hills.
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It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept the need for regulation on banks and salaries and so on.
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I came to New York with two bags, my guitar and my laptop. I set my stuff down and immediately ran to an audition.
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People like me start organizing conferences and editing journals, even become tenured professors talking about Empire of the Senseless with a bunch of wide-eyed kids from the farmland. If only one of those kids goes back home and lets her hogs out of the pen to go plum wild rolling around in their own slop while the neighboring farmers scratch their chins, then, isn't that worth it? Insert the same scenario with stockbrokers, stock-car drivers, and stock characters in the post-baccalaureate working man's sideshow, and well, that's viral reproduction.
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I don't enjoy reality television at all. I have to say that I get it, though. I watch some of it, and I understand why people enjoy it.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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I wouldn't say that I was a Spider-Man super fan.
