John Malkovich Quotes
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I have written stories since I was a child.
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You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
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If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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I shall not live much longer than did Keats.
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The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.
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The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely do, they try to problematize it.
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The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.
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I'm not a very skeptical person.
