John Cusack Quotes
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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I like to collect DVDs of most English films.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time ... human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
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I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.
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Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.
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When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
