John Malkovich Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.
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I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.
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I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
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I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
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Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
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We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.
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Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.
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I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
