John Huston Quotes
I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems.
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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
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Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.
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I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
