John Knoll Quotes

There's a shot that I designed to try and illustrate the scale of the Death Star that's sort of framed in close on the equatorial trench as Krennic's ship is leaving. The camera's pulling back, and you start with it framed so you can kind of see those docking bays that are in that trench.

John Knoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1962

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Don't worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable - and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

Jocko Willink

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

John Cheever

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Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jef I. Richards

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I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

Simon Baker

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There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.

Louis Theroux

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Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

Dean Kamen

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I sometimes forget that my vision of the world is not remotely anyone else's.

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If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

William Joyce

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What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?

Pontius Pilate

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Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Philip Johnson

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As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.

Sheri L. Dew

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We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.

Richard Leakey

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