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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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Delegation: No one is an island. You can accomplish a lot more with help.
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Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.
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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.
