Latest John Larroquette Quotes from Interviews

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• I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.

  John Larroquette

  Wall, Speak Your Mind, People

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• I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

  John Larroquette

  Jobs, Teenager, Writing

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• I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

  John Larroquette

  Book, Writing, Blank

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• I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.

  John Larroquette

  Writing, Long, Havens

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• Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

  John Larroquette

  Writing, Giving, Advice

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• Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of just Samuel Beckett. By him, about him, in different languages, etc. etc. Notebooks of his, letters of his that I own, personal letters - not to me, but I bought a bunch of correspondence of his. I love his humor, and I'm always blown away by his syntax and his ideas. So I keep reading those.

  John Larroquette

  Notebook, Reading, Ideas

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• I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

  John Larroquette

  Brain, Way, Literature

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• I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an individual accomplishment that someone is imposing upon you by listening to them read it. Because you're listening to their interpretation, and their emphasis would probably be different from the one that your brain makes while you're reading it.

  John Larroquette

  Reading, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• I don't have anything against audiobooks. I actually did a couple of them - but not many. I just never got into it, timing-wise. I don't listen to them, if that's any indication of my feelings about them. I'd rather read.

  John Larroquette

  Wise, Couple, Feelings

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• The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday, and there's not a nick, not a blur, there's not any fading on the jacket at all, because they were taken and protected. A limited edition, by nature, is limited, and also probably more protected because of that. I'd rather have a first trade edition than a special one of 25 that was made years later, even if it's signed by the author. The trade edition is the Holy Grail.

  John Larroquette

  Taken, Years, Yesterday

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• It's amazing being a member of perhaps the last analog generation - being born in the late '40s, growing up in the '50s and '60s, when it was still a very analog world. And in New Orleans those days, the country was just next door, as it were. You didn't have to travel miles and miles to get out in the woods. There's tons of fishing, obviously, in New Orleans, and tons of hunting. That was part of the cycle of life, to get fresh meat from the butcher or go duck hunting and get it yourself. It wasn't malicious or insensitive. It was just there, and you used it.

  John Larroquette

  Country, Growing Up, Hunting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller, people like Charles Bukowski and John Fante and David Foster Wallace.

  John Larroquette

  Years, People, Biographies

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• I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.

  John Larroquette

  Wise, Celebrate, Bigs

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• I certainly don't take life lightly. To respect the product that you're using, I think, is very important. I think it does connect you a little bit more.

  John Larroquette

  Thinking, Important, Littles

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