John C. Reilly Quotes
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
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Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
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Order in the societies they describe is the result of a dense social network where people have an intimate understanding of each other and the threat of violence is a continuous force for preserving order because of its implications for other members of society.
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Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
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Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
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There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
