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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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'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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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I've always wanted to title an album 'Illinois.' I wrote the song, which was a very special song to me. The song isn't exactly about being from there, even though I am.
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I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
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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.
