John Corabi Quotes
I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn't that many.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.
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You have to follow that next step.
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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.
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Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
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My stories are often a little mysterious.
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I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn't that many.
