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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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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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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Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.
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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 first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
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Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
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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.
