John Niven Quotes

It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

John Niven

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I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.

Jesse Johnson

HistorySmallAmericanLensMore

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

John McCarthy

YouMoreNeverTheorySomething

I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

Matt Stone

WorldImportantWantMoreNeverUs

To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

John R. Allen

YouDefeatWillOthers

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Sojourner Truth

StarsSpaceMoonLookDownFar Away

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

Ronda Rousey

GoodCompetitionPeopleMeBetter

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

Christopher Lloyd

PeopleSome PeopleQuickRetention

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Conway Twitty

DeathKissYouGoAwayGoes

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.

Arne Glimcher

ArtDoorViewChooseEarlyTry

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

Wole Soyinka

EducationFatherSchoolMeProcess

The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.

William Hurt

ChangeYouWanderDiscoveryActing

Whenever people talk about Don and I recording again, which almost everybody usually mentions, I always say 'Well, there's plenty of things that you haven't heard! Plenty of things out there to discover!'

Phil Everly

PeopleYouSayTalkAlwaysOut

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