Jon Watts Quotes

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

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• I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • You
  • Like
  • Workouts

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing
  • Calmness
  • Aggravating

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Effort

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • First
  • Safety
  • Strive

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Man
  • Always
  • Cut

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Republican
  • Offensive

• Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Suffering
  • Dying
  • Movement

• Sich Alles, was zum leiblichen Wohlseyn beiträgt, zu verschaffen, ist der Zweck seines Lebens. Glücklich genug, wenn dieser ihm viel zu schaffen macht! Denn, sind jene Güter ihm schon zum voraus oktroyirt; so fällt er unausbleiblich der Langenweile anheim.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,And glides in modest innocence away.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Age

• I can't tell you how lucky I feel. I've gotten to work Peter Facinelli 'American Odyssey,' and I got to do 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' - which really gave me such a tremendous amount of pride and patriotism, and it was very close to my heart. I've really had such great support, so many great teachers, and so many wonderful people surrounding me.

  

  Elena Kampouris
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Culture

• There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

  

  Jon Watts
  • Great
  • Age