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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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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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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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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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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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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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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I don't like concrete jungles.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
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We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.
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I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
