John Goodman Quotes
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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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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You just can't control your art in the future.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.
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It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.
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I rarely assess live shows after I play them.
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You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it
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We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?
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TV is the best babysitter.
