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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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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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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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.
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Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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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!
