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John Carpenter Quotes

I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 16, 1948

Topics

Kind Deal Enjoyed Though Movie

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

Good Art Listening Believe Important

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

Toussaint Louverture

Mother Vices Sloth Avoid

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

Hope Week Flexible Will Taste Give

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

Age Great Brother Amazing Think

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Miguel de Unamuno

Art Meaning Embodies Sensations

Water is a cure-all. Water is everything. You can't get better without drinking lots of water, and you can't drink water unless it's clean.

Water Better You Drink Clean Get

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

Time Moment Artist Want Over Freeze

The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

Gentle Unpredictable Natural Against

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

Childhood Me Thought Nothing Normal

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

Daughter School Team Night Movies

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.

Future People Free Week Choice Out

The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also to support, over the next few years, diversification as well.

Nicola Sturgeon

Future Sea Support Strong Now Oil

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