Cameron Crowe Quotes
I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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Every wall is a door.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
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I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been.
