John Sayles Quotes

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

John Sayles

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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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• I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

  

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• When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.

  

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• I attribute that to the generosity of people that are in the entertainment business because they are all struggling. All roads seem to come to acting, for certain kinds of people that have a reason for being there. They want to be seen and heard, but there's more to it than that. There's a kindred spirit of struggling to find out, "What is this thing? What are we?" It's those eternal questions. But, in the meanwhile, I've met some wonderful people doing this.

  

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• The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.

  

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• But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.

  

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• The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

  

  John Sayles
  • America