John Sayles Quotes
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
John Sayles
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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.
Ian Fleming
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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.
FKA twigs
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
Lady Gaga
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
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I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.
Curtis Armstrong
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. Henry
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I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.
Andre Dubus III
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It just tends to be that the grass is always greener. If I'm doing a movie, I suddenly think, 'Oh God, I wish I could just get a play script I could get my teeth into.' If I'm doing eight shows a week in a West End musical, I think, 'God, how lovely it would be to be in a TV series right now.'
Douglas Hodge
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
Elizabeth McCracken
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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.
John Sayles