John Ashbery Quotes
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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I am all for controlling guns.
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I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
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I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
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The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
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Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.
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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
