John Sayles Quotes

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

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• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
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  • Beginning
  • Choice

• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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  • Quality
  • Never

• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Work
  • America

• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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  • Vacation
  • Too Much

• It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
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  • Opportunity
  • Because

• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
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  • Country
  • Book

• It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

  

  Kate Middleton
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  • Learn
  • Work Hard

• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
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  • World
  • Work

• For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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  • Working
  • Process

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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  • Words
  • Years

• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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  • Work
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• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
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  • Job
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• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
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  • Music
  • Want

• Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

  

  Barry Schwartz
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  • Book
  • Changes

• I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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  • Science

• Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Country

• If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • God
  • Kill
  • Live Life

• The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
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  • Lord
  • Expression

• My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.

  

  Betsy Hodges
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  • Career

• I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

  

  John Sayles
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  • Book