Jon Foreman (Jonathan Mark Foreman) Quotes
If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.
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If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.
