Jack Nicholson Quotes
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.
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I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
