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.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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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.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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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.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
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The principal might yield a greater sum,Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;
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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.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
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Being unprepared heightens nerves.
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Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.
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The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.
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When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
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I have a deep-seated belief that marriage is between a man and a woman exclusively.
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Act because you love to act.
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I was fortunate to work with actors who loved music too. Just seeing what it would do to their manner and their faces was great and it helped give the story a little more soul.
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Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'
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The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.
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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.
