Jon Watts Quotes

When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
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• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
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• For me, family has always come first.

  

  Candace Parker
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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
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• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
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• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
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• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  

  Garrett Hardin
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• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
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• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
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• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  

  Kate Winslet
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• All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

  

  Dustin Diamond
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  • Up

• When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Children
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• What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• My parents didn't get to have a dream. Their dream was to live in a country where their kids would have choice.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
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• Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
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• When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.

  

  Jon Watts
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