Martin Scorsese Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.
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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
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Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.
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The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
