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.

John Schlesinger

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• I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • School
  • Bad
  • Never

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Love
  • Honest

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Start

• Democracy is the road to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Democracy
  • Road
  • Socialism

• 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.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Accept
  • Someone

• Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Music
  • Past
  • Memories

• 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.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • You
  • Community

• I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Done
  • Death
  • Best

• I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Black
  • White

• My aunts still try to fatten me up.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Me
  • Try

• Family are the people that can hurt you the most.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Hurt

• That's what race fans love to see. That's what they bought this ticket for. That's what they're sitting in the grandstands rooting on their favorite driver for is to see him get out there, mix it up clean and bring it home just like we were, third and fourth.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Up
  • Home

• There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.'

  

  Martin Gardner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • Men
  • Country

• I adore Susan Sarandon, she's just so cool, and brilliant, and beautiful. I just like her whole vibe - off- and on-screen.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Screen
  • Adore
  • Vibe

• 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.

  

  John Schlesinger