John Sayles Quotes
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
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I would describe my personal style as eclectic.
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Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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Gay rights are human rights.
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'The central defect of the human mind,' Custine said, 'is its unfortunate habit of seeing patterns where none exist. Of course, that is also its chief asset.''But sometimes a very dangerous one.'
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
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I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.
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You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
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I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.
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My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.
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The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority-whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional-rather than an accident of timing or geography.
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The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?
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When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
