Jack Nicholson Quotes
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!
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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
