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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I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.
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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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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.
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Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.
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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.
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With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.
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More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
