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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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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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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They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
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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.
