John Cusack Quotes
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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I love doing every role I do!
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
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Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
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Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
