Josh McDermitt Quotes
My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.
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Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.
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It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.
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My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.
