John Cusack Quotes
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
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It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.
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I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
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I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
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There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
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Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
