Martin Scorsese Quotes

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

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• It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

  

  Jack Falahee
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• Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
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• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
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• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

  

  Damon Runyon
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• Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
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• I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

  

  Idris Elba
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• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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  • Book
  • American

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  

  Patrick White
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  • Success
  • Me

• I grew up in Delhi, where there are no Parsis. But once I came to Mumbai, I realised how quirky Parsis are.

  

  Cyrus Broacha
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• I feel like I have a bit of a Type A personality.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Personality

• Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Obstacles

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Peace
  • Rich

• This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.

  

  Rachel Cohn
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  • Nature
  • Cute

• I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

  

  Martin Scorsese
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