Jonathan Demme Quotes
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.
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It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
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Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
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People learn to lead because they care about something.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Growing up in Hawaii, the ocean is where I'm most at home. When I'm away from it and landlocked I long for the ocean. There's something about it, I'm at peace with it.
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Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
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As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
