Judith McNaught Quotes
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I was born free.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy.
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
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I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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The French have a saying: 'Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored.' Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true. And so, while I say we will neither hasten nor delay, let us not delay. All of which is summed up in the proverbs :
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I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.
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We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.
