Martin Scorsese Quotes
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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People like to call themselves fans of fighting and fans of the sport, but if you're a fan of fighting, how can you not like watching Demetrious Johnson? He's the best at it. He's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why wouldn't you enjoy watching that guy perform? He does a phenomenal job every time he's in there.
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People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
