Cameron Crowe Quotes
And I'm always surprised at who's there when you fail, ... It's usually not the people you expect to be there. It's easy to have friends when you're winning. And Jerry Maguire was kind of about that. This was about that, but it's like success and failure get trumped by an even bigger issue, which is, 'Are you going to be truly alive, and do you even know what that is?'
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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And I'm always surprised at who's there when you fail, ... It's usually not the people you expect to be there. It's easy to have friends when you're winning. And Jerry Maguire was kind of about that. This was about that, but it's like success and failure get trumped by an even bigger issue, which is, 'Are you going to be truly alive, and do you even know what that is?'
