Josh McDermitt Quotes
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.
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I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
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The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
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Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
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Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.
