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've just always been a bit of a dork.
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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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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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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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When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.
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As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
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Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
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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.