Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.
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If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.
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I hate to be smart.
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I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.
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It's like a record that you really like and then still like it 10 years later. It doesn't sort of get old and wear out on you. It still stands the test of time.
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I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
