Jonathan Carroll Quotes
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
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Old people are often impatient, but for what?
