John Malkovich Quotes
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.
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I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
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I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
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I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
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Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.
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Congress created a safe harbor for defamation in 1996 and for copyright in 1998. Both safe harbors were designed to ensure that the Internet would remain a participatory medium of speech.
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Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.
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I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.
