John Malkovich Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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Getting a movie made is a miracle... because the studios are only interested in making 'The Avengers.'
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The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.
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I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.
