Jonathan Demme Quotes

I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

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• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • See
  • Easier
  • Go

• I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Time
  • Always
  • Matter

• I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Walking

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Cat

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I find the business world hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Business
  • Find

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Day
  • Exercise
  • Fight

• Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Food
  • Financial
  • Wall

• You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.

  

  Nas
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Rap

• E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Economic

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Happy
  • Nervous
  • Eat

• Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • War
  • Peace

• I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Up
  • Growing

• Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Matter
  • Able

• They’re writing what we’re all living, you ’d have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see the drama in the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.

  

  Alex Gansa
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Blind

• When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.

  

  Jonathan Demme
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  • Hope