Jon Foreman (Jonathan Mark Foreman) Quotes
Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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I'm prone to breaking out on my chest and back because I work out a lot.
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I was a teenage idol, but not the one that the girls would put up on their walls, like Fabian and Frankie Avalon. I was more cerebral, like a Roy Orbison or a Buddy Holly. I was one of the few who could write songs.
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I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.
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The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.
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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
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Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.
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America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
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The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
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The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
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I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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of a character in 'The Man Who Gave Up Smoking' who is suffering from a hangover ... the noise of the cat stamping about in the passage outside caused him exquisite discomfort.
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That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
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I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
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Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.
