John Malkovich Quotes
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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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 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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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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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
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In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
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My preference is not to fight a Mexican.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.
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I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
