Jon Watts Quotes

Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.

Jon Watts

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I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Tom Stoppard

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What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

Matt Bomer

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Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

Michael Koryta

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Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Lucio Tan

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If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time.

Julia Stiles

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After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, and now the devastation wrought on Texas by Harvey, the U.S. can and should do better.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

Diana Ross

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On the street, on the train - I pull my hat down, and nobody knows it's me. I always wanted the kind of fame that came with an off button.

Boy George

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I'm following the path that was destined for me.

Bozoma Saint John

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A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

Bruce Forsyth

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I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

William J. Clinton

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I'm not uncomfortable with my looks.

Shannon Sharpe

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