Martin Scorsese Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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I believe the person who was out conquering the world, who was out fighting in the world were our fathers, so to have them come... I adored my father more than anyone in the world, but my father had more advice on work policies and how to get a job and how to survive in the work environment than my mother because my mother never worked outside of the home. So I think the support of fathers is very important.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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It is not a question of who is the better actor.
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I came out of the womb wearing make-up!
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People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
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On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.
