J Mascis Quotes
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.
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I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We did have a nice time on the train on the way back.
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I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.