Rian Johnson Quotes
You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.
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Let us have peace.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.
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I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.
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On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.
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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.
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Our first gig we played as a three-piece, we got paid $15; I got $5. But I was 12 years old, and I never had $5 at one time before," he said. Their first earnings were a cause for a celebration, so the boys traveled to Tony's in Saginaw.
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When your dealing with a lot of men talking about selling drugs, you have to be the toughest one there, you have to be the one putting in all the work that you are expecting them to do. I was tired of leading from the front and living that life. That was not the aggressive lifestyle that I wanted to live. I wanted to progress as a man.
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.
