Joe Eszterhas Quotes
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.

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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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If you want to change your life, you have to do things you've never done before.
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
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One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in it will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that business proceeds from mysteries too recondite for you and me.
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Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.