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 felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
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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 believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare system, which broke up millions of marriages by funneling taxpayers' money solely to the woman. That made the father and husband irrelevant.
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Now as we call every thing custom, which proceeds from a past repetition, without any new reasoning or conclusion, we may establish it as a certain truth, that all the belief, which follows upon any present impression, is deriv'd solely from that origin.
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There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.
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News is becoming more of a conversation. You can express opinions online in real time. You don't send a letter to the editor and wait a week.
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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
