John Requa Quotes
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.
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Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.
