John Sayles Quotes
Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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There is a garden in her faceWhere roses and white lilies blow;A heavenly paradise is that place,Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:There cherries grow which none may buyTill 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
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I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
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I'm not a violent person.
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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician.
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When I was in my 20s, I was out of control in terms of what I would do to defend my vision. There are black film-makers and storytellers who take a back seat to just get it done. It's good, but it's not right there. It's been compromised.
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Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.
