John Sayles Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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We're just like a regular family.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
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Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.
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We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
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Honestly, the America of my childhood I'm not convinced is available anymore to my own children, and that is a significant motivation to want to go out and do something better for them and rest of my neighbors in Colorado.
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The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.
