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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The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.
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Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
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When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.
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I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
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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.
