Martin Scorsese Quotes
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
Quotes to Explore
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I don't like controversy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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Codeine...bourbon...
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When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at the helm.
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Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
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I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.
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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
