John Travolta Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I’d grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree?
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I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
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To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.
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I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.
