John Cassavetes Quotes
I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.
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Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.
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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.
