John Sayles Quotes
I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
E. L. Doctorow
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
Taylor Swift
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The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
Florence Kelley
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
Orhan Pamuk
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I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.
Barbara Hale
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
Saint-John Perse
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
Lance Henriksen
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My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.
Dakota Johnson
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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
Frances McDormand
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Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
Gary Cole
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu
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It's been quite the experience for two brothers who were Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, who had no idea that they were going to end up in the entertainment industry. To be where we are now, making features, TV shows and getting a hundred million views online is kind of an amazing thing.
Rafi Fine
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Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
Dan Chaon
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I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
Edgar Winter
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I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
Zac Goldsmith
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
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Modern science is no longer denying spirit. And that, that is epochal. As Hans Küng remarked, the standard answer to 'Do you believe in Spirit?' used to be, 'Of course not, I'm a scientist,' but it might very soon become, 'Of course I believe in Spirit. I'm a scientist.'
Ken Wilber
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
Douglas Coupland
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I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
Ali Smith
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I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
John Sayles