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.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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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.
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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.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
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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.
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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.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
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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.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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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.
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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?
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
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I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.
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I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.
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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.
