Jon Watts Quotes
The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to 'Spider-Man.' I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but... It's so weird.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
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I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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Once you start classifying and trying to identify your own comedy style, you've ceased to be funny.
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I always knew that the violence would be something that would be probably be brought up, but actually it's nothing to do with the movie. The first two minutes are all about establishing fear, that something horrible is going to happen. It [the violence] was done really quickly, and it wasn't like pornography where you can like dwell over it, you know. It had to be done, we had to kill some people.
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The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to 'Spider-Man.' I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but... It's so weird.
