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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You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
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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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To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.
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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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We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing bulletproof vests from the federal government. Two sets of applications, two different sets of personnel to approve those applications.
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
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In the future, women will increasingly want nurturer-connectors, since part of what he will be nurturing is her ability to protect herself.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
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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.
