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?'.John Sayles
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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 -
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
Taylor Swift -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
Frances McDormand -
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
Gary Cole -
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu -
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 -
I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
Edgar Winter
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
Zac Goldsmith -
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
e. e. cummings -
It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.
Yuichiro Miura -
You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog and I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees and I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me.
Paddy Chayefsky -
You tell me, since Independence, in the field of justice delivery, has so much work been accomplished anywhere? But, for news traders, these things perhaps are not saleable. Now you tell me if these things are pro-poor or not.
Narendra Modi -
Jefferson said the states are the laboratories of democracy. But the problem is, nobody reads the lab reports. We've got every state trying to reinvent everything. I was struck even more so after this trip how little exchange there is among states that are coping with exactly the same issues.
Angus King
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That swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man's mind had been born.
Vladimir Nabokov -
You heard of hell, well I was sent from it.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.
Apollonia Kotero -
If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
James Lapine -
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