John Cusack Quotes
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
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Listen to the words people say in their lyrics, and tell me, if that's some real shit, if that's real to you, you know what I mean. Listen to what they sayin', don't just bob your head to the beat, peep the game, and listen to what Im saying. Hold us accountable for it.
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In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
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I got to work with legendary people.
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There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
