John Schlesinger Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
-
You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
-
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
-
For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
-
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
-
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
-
It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
-
You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
-
I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
-
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
-
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
-
I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
-
There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
-
The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
-
I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
-
And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
-
Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
-
I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
-
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
-
The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
-
Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!
-
My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
-
Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
