John Sayles Quotes
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
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I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
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Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
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Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
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I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
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If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
