John Sayles Quotes
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.
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When you do deals with France involved, you want to make sure that the government endorses your deal, understands the strategic rationale.
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Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.
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The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
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The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.
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I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
