John Huston Quotes
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.
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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
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I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.
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I grew up wearing trousers and climbing trees.
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Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as were created by typography. (p. 149)
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I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that's kind of mysterious and nice. On the other hand, the New York gossip about me was that I'd never write another book. So I thought, 'Well, I will then.'
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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
