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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• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
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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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
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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.

  

  Ted Danson
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• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
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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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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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.

  

  Dana Plato
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• I'm bad at returning phone calls.

  

  Zac Efron
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• As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

  

  George R. R. Martin
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• I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound." And I've never fully explored it.

  

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• Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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• Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history. Finally, a few trips to the library, and we have a pretty good sense of what all the masters said. They all said the same things. There is a mass discovery that Jesus is truth, the Torah is truth, Mohammed is truth, Krishna is truth, Buddha is truth, and so on. They are all truth and they are all among us now.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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