John Schlesinger Quotes
I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
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What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.
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….I have no patience with women who complain because their mothers or their husband’s mothers have to live with them. To my prejudice eye, a child’s life without a grandparent en residence would be a barren thing.
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Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.
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I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
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Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.
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I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.
