Rian Johnson Quotes
The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.
Rian Johnson
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
Ted Bell
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
Zachary Levi
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
Jackie Earle Haley
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
Ian St. John
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
Campbell Scott
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
R. J. Cutler
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
Gail Collins
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. Mencken
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My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
Yelawolf
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
Patrick Dempsey
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
Nancy Kress
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And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
Jack Vance
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'Why,' said another, 'Some there are who tell Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell The luckless Pots he marr'd in making - Pish! He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well'.
Omar Khayyam
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It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.
Leo Strauss
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Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.
Dave Davies
The Kinks
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God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.
Allen Iverson
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A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
James H. Douglas, Jr.
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That authorization was based on an intelligence community assessment of a serious and continuing threat to the homeland. The lawfulness of the actual authorization was reviewed by lawyers at the Department of Justice and the White House, and was approved by the attorney general.
B. R. Hayden
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I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.
James McCartney
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
Elizabeth Berg
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The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.
Rian Johnson
