John Waters Quotes
I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.
John Waters
Quotes to Explore
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
Earl Weaver
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
Ziad Doueiri
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
Wendy Kopp
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
Kate Christensen
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
Walt Mossberg
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Joanne Rowling
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
Dambisa Moyo
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If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.
Macaulay Culkin
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
Abraham Verghese
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
Flea
Jane's Addiction
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
Sam Heughan
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
E. L. James
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Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.
J. B. Bickerstaff
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I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
Lee Daniels
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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To my mind, the actor has this great responsibility of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
Edward G. Robinson
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I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.
John Waters
