Cameron Crowe Quotes
Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.
