Jonathan Nolan Quotes
One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.
Quotes to Explore
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.
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As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.
