Martin Scorsese Quotes
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.
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Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I'm like, 'Okay, I have my eye on this,' or whatever.
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I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.
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I would do anything I could to try to make sure that Lena Headey wins an Emmy.
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Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels.
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Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
