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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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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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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Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.
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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
