John Cassavetes Quotes
I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.
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Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.
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As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
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All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.
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Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.
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The Rogue Cyborg is doing serious Rogue Cyborg stuff. He’s crouched before a data terminal as though it were an ancient altar, and from the look on his face what he’s praying for is desperate and bloody revenge.
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So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
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I don't I have everything I want; however, I have a lot and for that I am very grateful.
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It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.
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You move around at Fox depending on where they need you. That's what team players do. You pitch in. You know, you make it work.
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Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
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I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.
