John Malkovich Quotes
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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My preference is not to fight a Mexican.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.
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Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.
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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
