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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Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.
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I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.
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If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.
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I am going to get world-wide recognition from whoever wants it, and whoever wants to challenge me.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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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.
