Rian Johnson Quotes
The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
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Progress is impossible without change.
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Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.
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It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.
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By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.
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The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
