Jack Nicholson Quotes
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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'Isn’t that a little hard on him? You’re not only making him feel bad about something he didn’t do, you’re making him feel bad about something that didn’t even shracking happen.''I believe churches used to call it original sin,' Rutherford agreed, looking crafty. 'But what does it matter, if it serves to make him a better man?'
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Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
