Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.
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I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
