John Malkovich Quotes
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
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I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
