John Mellencamp Quotes
Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.
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Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.
