John Cusack Quotes
Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.
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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
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Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.
