Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
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Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
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I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
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I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
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I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.
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It may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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If war is the continuation of politics by other means, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means.
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...teeth set out by a landscape gardener...
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Jerry Cantrell Missing Lost Friend, Moving On With Trip. MTV News (July 1, 2002).
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
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Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.
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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.
