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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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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.
