John McEnroe Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.
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There's always going to be somebody that don't like you. It's life.
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I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
