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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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador 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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The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
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People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
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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.
