Martin Scorsese Quotes
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I love to write.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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No man may make another free.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques Mr. Mann brought to bear on 'Heat,' right down to using a similar cold-blooded electronic score.
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I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s.
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Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.
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When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
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The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
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Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
