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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Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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When someone is working hard on something, that always connects with people, no matter what the differences in generations are.
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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
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What's the point? You can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.
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Old people are often impatient, but for what?
