John Cassavetes Quotes
My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.
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It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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I'm not a great writer.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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It's not rocket science to make a movie.
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There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are.
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I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.
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For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.
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Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.
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My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.
