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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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'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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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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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
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For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea.
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Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
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Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.
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There's nothing sexy about cancer.
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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.
