John Cassavetes Quotes

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

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• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Life
  • Me
  • Owe

• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Change
  • Beginning

• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Work
  • Great
  • Liberty

• A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Purpose
  • Understand
  • Say

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • World
  • Effect
  • Buddhism

• Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Sea
  • Green

• Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Game
  • Emotions
  • Behavior

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Done
  • Me
  • Army

• In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Mother
  • Bible
  • Drink

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Patience
  • Natural
  • Producer

• I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Kids
  • Phobias

• People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Color
  • Gold

• This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.

  

  David Shields
  • Culture

• I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

  

  E. L. James
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

  

  John Cassavetes
  • People
  • True