Michael Patrick Jann Quotes
I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.
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Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.
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Denzel's all about the work. He's all about the acting. He's an actor. He'll tell you himself, 'I'm not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I'm an actor.' He steps on a set, that's what he is, and that's what he gives you. He gives his heart.
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A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.
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I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.
