Martin Scorsese Quotes
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
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I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
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Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
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Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?
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Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, 'This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.'
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You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.
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Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
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We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.
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If I exercise once or twice a day on vacation and don't want to wash my hair too often. I pack a lot of dry shampoo, like Amika's.
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Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.
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I loved being in Cambridge. I think about it often. It was this great little capsule of time to me.
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I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
