John Cassavetes Quotes
My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the pan thing. It's more like: "It took 20 years for this book to be done and now it'll be on a shelf for 20 years until the right person finds it."
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Feminism is the theory of gender oppression. To assume automatically that this makes it the theory of sexual oppression is to fail to distinguish between gender, on the one hand, and erotic desire, on the other.
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I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.
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I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
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My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
