John Heard Quotes

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

John Heard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 7, 1945

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After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

Melvin Van Peebles

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One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.

Matthew Pearl

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I don't go to the cinema much.

Tom Felton

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In 2000, Trump could have won the Reform Party nomination. I chaired his presidential exploratory committee.

Roger Stone

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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Mary Augusta Ward

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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

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It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

Lorene Scafaria

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'Zero Dark Thirty' raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don't think people really know how to grasp what type of film this is.

Jason Clarke

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The option to recall elected officials is an important one. Our representatives should always be mindful that they answer to their constituents, and if they act in malfeasance, their job may be on the line. But using the recall as a way to reverse the results of an election, or to hold a snap election, is simply undemocratic.

Jason Kander

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The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Dick Cavett

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Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

Donella Meadows

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