John Malkovich Quotes
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna...I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way...like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate.
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But we should not be kowtowing to anybody when it comes to freedom in this country.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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Every country has their problems.
