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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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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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 don't mind playing spoiler.
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The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.
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Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the whole video for African Child, the whole video for Super Tight, you know the Jackie Q songs.
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I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.
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Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.
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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.
