Martin Scorsese Quotes

You never know how much time you have left.

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Family

• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Investment

• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Space
  • Physics

• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Know

• I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Great
  • Day

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Everything

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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  • Writing
  • Hell

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Up
  • Time
  • Choice

• If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Why
  • Better
  • Fiction

• There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Real
  • Business
  • Today

• I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

  

  Joan Severance
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• You never know how much time you have left.

  

  Martin Scorsese
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