Jonathan Demme Quotes
I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.
Jonathan Demme
Quotes to Explore
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
Olivia Colman
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
Daniel A. D'Aniello
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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
Vin Diesel
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
Yahoo Serious
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
Taylor Kitsch
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Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.
Naftali Bennett
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Pat Riley
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It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
Ed Sheeran
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Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.
Tarja Halonen
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make drawings of series of instruments and players; their shapes, twisting of the hands, arms and neck of the violinist; for example, puffing out and hollowing of the cheeks of bassoonists, oboists, etc..
Edgar Degas
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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
Jerry Saltz
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When I graduated from college, I was told I could do great things and be great, but I didn't know what that meant and what it would feel like and the work that it would take.
Lauren Gibbs
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I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.
Chelsea Clinton
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Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.
John Garamendi
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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
Yasmin Mogahed
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I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.
Jonathan Demme