John Cassavetes Quotes
I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
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I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
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We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
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It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.
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The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
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If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.
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I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
