John Sayles Quotes
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.
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I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard.
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There's only one thing that regularly keeps me up at night. Working with the greatest people in the world and knowing that they are counting on me to build a company that endures - a company where they can grow professionally. A company where they can build world-class products and be proud to work.
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So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. . . . I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.
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I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
