John Cabrera Quotes
Everybody that's on a set - from the director to the grips to the electricians - it's all about problem solving. So, as empowered as you can make everybody feel, that's really important.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
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I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.
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Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
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Everybody that's on a set - from the director to the grips to the electricians - it's all about problem solving. So, as empowered as you can make everybody feel, that's really important.
