Martin Scorsese Quotes
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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I think God gives you all good things at the same time.
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I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.
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A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.
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If we start to use social media data sets to take the pulse of a nation or understand a crisis - or actually use it to deploy resources - we are getting a skewed picture of what is happening.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
