John Malkovich Quotes
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude.
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And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
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The way the music business is changing, it’s good we can have it both ways.
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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
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To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.
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I'm more boring and more conservative.
