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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Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.
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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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Lympne Castle opens its doors to visitors during the summer only. It is privately owned, and more an interesting medieval manor than a castle.
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Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations on the atonement that Christ could have offered up a perfect act of penitence instead of punishment, and that this would have been an acceptable offering suitable to remit our sinfulness.
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The problem with not saving is it can often mean you're - a crisis away from, as we've seen in some cases, living in your car or losing your home or - having your lights shut off.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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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.
