John Schlesinger Quotes

I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.

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• There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Yourself
  • Look
  • Skin

• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Friends
  • Wedding
  • Photographer

• I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Bad
  • Myself

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Business
  • America
  • Never

• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Friend
  • Communication
  • Best Friend

• Every man is his own hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Hell
  • Every Man

• Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • War
  • Interesting

• Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Control
  • Moral
  • Politics

• Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Future
  • Past
  • Focus

• The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Playing
  • Greatness
  • Degree

• The principal might yield a greater sum,Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;

  

  Anne Bradstreet

• During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • Life
  • World
  • Organization

• The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

  

  Conrad Black
  • American

• Being unprepared heightens nerves.

  

  James Galway

• Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Life
  • Parents

• I think Margaret Thatcher was a superstar in this country, and I think we all felt we needed a superstar to play her, somebody of huge intelligence, passion, and power and warmth.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Country
  • Power
  • Passion

• One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation... He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the Army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Reasons
  • Cooperation
  • President Obama

• What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • True
  • Author

• Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

  

  George Will
  • Believe
  • Taxes
  • Democrat

• I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.

  

  John Schlesinger