Jonah Hill Quotes

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.

Jonah Hill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 20, 1983

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Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was uncritical and emphasized wine as a romantic, historic beverage. Criticism and comparative tastings were eschewed for fear of offending the trade, which most writers depended upon for survival.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Robert Mugabe

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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Amy Tan

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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

John Ray

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I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.

Steve Bannon

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I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them.

Tom Goodman-Hill

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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain.

Luke Harding

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Some people only talk, while some only work. Sardar Patel was one such leader, who always worked without talking.

Dinsha Patel

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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

Douglas Sirk

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You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

Antonia Bird

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I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.

SZA

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I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That's just not who I am. I'm more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.

Paul Walker

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