Jonathan Demme Quotes
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
Bear Grylls
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
Kate Moss
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
Yossi Vardi
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
Rachel Keller
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
Nargis Fakhri
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
W. Averell Harriman
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
Victoria Hanley
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien
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The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.
Jaime Ray Newman
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People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Michelangelo
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Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
Daniel Goldstein
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Just because our political heroes were murdered does not mean that the dream does not still live, buried deep in our broken hearts.
Joe Biden
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Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
Jonathan Demme
