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Jon Favreau Quotes

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: October 19, 1966

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Nature Find Person Go Lazy Study

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Joanna Trollope

Life Experience Growing Up Advice

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

Smile Yourself Face Laugh Learn You

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

Mother Woman Child Someone Everyone

We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.

Learning Path Waiting People Legal

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

Editing Awe Shoot Who Like Shot

Wall Street trading floors have long been seen as bastions of testosterone that rewarded, literally, those with sharp elbows who could throw a punch.

Long Wall Street Punch Seen Sharp

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

Myself Ideas Socialism Selfish Party

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

People Philosophy You Find Always

When I joined films in 2002, there were all kinds of rash and unkind comments that were made about my looks in the reviews.

Looks Kinds Reviews Made Unkind

Because it was one of my favorites from the Arthurian legend, one of the things that I really enjoyed doing was the legend of the crystal cave. In my head, it was fun to imagine what it was going to look like because there was a lot of CGI involved, in seeing visions of the future reflected within crystals.

Future Fun Legend Doing Seeing Look

I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein's manager to get behind me!

Aretha Franklin

People Me Design Someone Manager

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

People Victory Think Congress Beyond

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