John Cassavetes Quotes
I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.
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So tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be a community college or a four-year school, vocational training or an apprenticeship. But whatever the training may be, every American will need to get more than a high school diploma.
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Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.