Jonathan Evison Quotes
There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Astaire was ballroom, basically, and Gene Kelly had such athleticism - that's always what I responded to and what just blew my head open when I watched Gene Kelly's numbers. But, Fred Astaire was just so incredibly inventive and so, so smooth - so smooth.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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He is so vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a Parliamentary constitution is not favorable to such ambitions; things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.
