John Sayles Quotes
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
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For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
