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 don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
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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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I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
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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 Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
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Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
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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.
