Jonathan Mostow Quotes
It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
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It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.
