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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This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
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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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Every now and then, you get lucky enough to work with some people you feel like you would take a bullet for.
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I'm not Deion Sanders. We're different people with different styles. People see similarities between me and him; that's fine. It's an honor to be mentioned in the same breath with him. But that's as far as I go with it.
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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
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...as you'll know, the word 'fuck' sort of is used quite a lot in my house. Now, that's not to say, I think to say 'fuck this' or 'fuck you' a lot more, so it should be entered into the English language, because it has a lot more impact when you say, 'I fucking hate this thing.'
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If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way.
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Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.
