Jonathan Tropper Quotes
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.
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I'm very much a family person.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
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It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
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Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
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Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.
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It's very important to execute down the stretch and get the stops, but by the same token, we want to put the games away a little earlier.
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When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.
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Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
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One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
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Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.
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That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, and we're not maximizing the use of our forces to best efficiency
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That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
