Jack Nicholson Quotes
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
