John Travolta Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
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Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.
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Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
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I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
