Martin Scorsese Quotes
I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
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... the Eternal turned his attention to the three shades who stood humbly and yet hopefully before him. The quick, with so short a time to live, when they talk of themselves, talk too much; but the dead, with eternity before them, are so verbose that only angels could listen to them with civility.
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Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.
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Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.
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I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
