Joan Cusack Quotes
I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Those who go along get along.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.
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What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
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So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country until people get back to work, until they have good-paying jobs, and in between times, we will not move this economy forward until we are helping people be able to keep going in this recession.
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Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.
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I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.
