John Requa Quotes
It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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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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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.
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Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
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Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.
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Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.
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The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.
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It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.
