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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The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
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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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I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
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I'm a big oatmeal fan. For my every-morning breakfast, I will do oatmeal with cinnamon, goat's milk or even butter, with apples and raisins, and then I'll maybe do some eggs, say two poached eggs with that.
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Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
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I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
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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.
