Jonathan Evison Quotes
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.
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When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the Beatles, there's the Rolling Stones.' But people know those stories. Here was a story no one knew.
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When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.
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Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
