John Hughes Quotes

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

John Hughes

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• What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Pretty
  • Say
  • Potatoes

• I would have loved to have been a cricketer.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Loved
  • Would
  • Been

• It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • True
  • Development

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Why
  • Success

• It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Love
  • Exciting

• I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Man
  • Always
  • Sound

• The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Great
  • Small
  • Beatles

• Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Day
  • Church
  • Rest

• Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Men
  • Action

• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • City
  • Cat

• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • Truth
  • Together

• When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Up
  • Long
  • Power

• I had to read it out to my sister, who was witness to my early dark days, when my mother was afraid what would happen to me. But, I knew I couldn't read without choking up, so I asked Gautami to read it out for me.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Dark

• While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Home

• People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • People
  • Past
  • Cancer

• I have been a producer and director for many years, and I can say it's really difficult for women, although the women in Mexico suffer as much as other women in the world. The first thing is to get respect for the work you do. Then it is about getting the money. And this respect comes little by little over the years.

  

  Adriana Barraza
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• He'll probably kill me for talking about it, because he doesn't like to talk about that. He just likes to do that kind of a thing because it's the right thing to do.

  

  Leonard Ellerbe
  • Talk
  • To Do
  • Right Thing

• Your body is your own planet Earth.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Body
  • Planets

• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

  

  Bono U2
  • Poverty
  • Ocean
  • Generation

• The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Law

• What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

  

  John Hughes