John Malkovich Quotes
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.
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The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
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I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
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A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.
