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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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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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.
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It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
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Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
