John Hughes Quotes
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
Quotes to Explore
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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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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
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All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.
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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
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Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
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Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
