Martin Scorsese Quotes
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.
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You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
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When I was in high school in America, I didn't see anyone who looked like me - hardly ever. I just thought that was normal because you don't know any better. So I used to idolize so many other people, like Sarah Michelle Gellar on 'Buffy.'
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The market we're going after is the clean-energy market.
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It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
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There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
