John Travolta Quotes
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
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The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—
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I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
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Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
