John Vane Quotes
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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Oh my gravy!
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Fox News and their Republican collaborators are the enemy of America, ...the enemy of anybody who wants anything good for this country.
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The man that makes a character makes foes.
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Music I heard with you was more than music,And bread I broke with you was more than bread;Now that I am without you, all is desolate;All that was once so beautiful is dead.
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I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
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We want to generate jobs in the U.S.
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I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.
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Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.
