John Huston Quotes
I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
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During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.
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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.
