Nick Cassavetes (Nicholas David Rowland Cassavetes) Quotes
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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We can quiet our minds enough to tune in to what our bodies are telling us - I believe in angels - and we need to listen to the messages being sent. They are real messages - just as real as a human saying something to you.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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Background updating is absolutely the future.
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
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If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
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Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.
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Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '20's or bebop from the Swing Era or Avant-garde from Bebop, or Effusion, or on and on and on. So, we don't really know where it's going.
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I like to give my actors a lot of room.
