Jonathan Demme Quotes
I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.Jonathan Demme
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May -
If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
Eddie Murphy -
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida -
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
Zubin Mehta -
Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
Ted Yoho -
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Barry Humphries -
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken -
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn -
At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
Felicia Day -
I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
Najib Mikati -
I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
Tamsin Greig
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
Ralph Steadman -
I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld -
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Frances Mayes -
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
Earl Monroe -
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
Felicity Jones -
I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.
James Murphy -
Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido me voy.
Antonio Porchia -
Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.
Dylan Penn -
If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
Manny Montana -
I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.
Jonathan Demme