Jonathan Demme Quotes
I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and listen to my podcasts, at the end of the day, am I really going to watch an episode of murder and time travel?
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'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
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C'était l'heure où l'essaim des rêves malfaisantsTord sur leurs oreillers les bruns adolescents.
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'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
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It's fantastic, are you kidding? To sort of be part of this project from the ground up, from the script form, and then for it to kind of do as well as it did in the States in the festivals, and come here; it's fantastic, it's wonderful.
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I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.
