John Malkovich Quotes
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.
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It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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The housing market has bottomed. It's not too late to get involved.
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And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.
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Eight-year-olds can switch into acquisition mode pretty quickly.
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I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
