Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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I've always been able to put things in perspective.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
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I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
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I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.
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It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
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Drumming is my middle name.
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So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'
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I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I knew that others before me had been granted the liberty of imagining whatever circles they wished to represent the phenomena of the stars, I thought that I likewise would readily be allowed to test whether, by assuming some motion of the Earth's, more dependable representations than theirs could be found for the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.
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Justice is the essence of peace.
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Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
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When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
