John Schlesinger Quotes
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Acting has always been my passion and will remain so.
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A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.
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There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
