John McEnroe Quotes
It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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I hate birthdays.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
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With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
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Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.
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I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
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It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else.
