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Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.


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JOHN TYLER Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
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JOHN LEGEND When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and...
JOHN BOYEGA In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit...
JOHN LASSETER A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a g...
JOHN ROOS For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me be...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE Love is my religion - I could die for it.
JOHN KEATS Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
JOHN WEBSTER Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
JOHN LUBBOCK A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, ...
JOHN BERGER Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
JOHN MILTON Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the ...
JOHN MILTON No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
JOHN MILTON Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON