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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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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'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
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Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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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.
