Martin Scorsese Quotes
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
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I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
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Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.
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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.
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I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my dick.
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Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.
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While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts.
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Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
