Joe Sacco Quotes
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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If someone said, 'Jon, we need $250 million a year from now and we can make a dramatic breakthrough for ovarian cancer,' I'd have $250 million in two months. You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified.
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In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!
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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
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It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.
