Jonathan Demme Quotes

I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

Jonathan Demme

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• The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Family
  • Past
  • Changes

• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Character
  • Yourself
  • Relax

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• 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
  • People
  • Same
  • Speech

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• 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
  • Up
  • American
  • Culture

• 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
  • Writing
  • Period
  • Author

• 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
  • People
  • Myself
  • Stay Focused

• 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
  • People
  • Kids
  • High

• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Team
  • Management
  • Mission

• 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
  • Music
  • Growing
  • Inspired

• Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Women

• 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

• Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Experience

• If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

  

  William Golding
  • Fire
  • Animal
  • Blow

• No one's ever told me I needed to get a facelift or anything.

  

  Kristin Cavallari

• Frustration is not a work plan.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Work
  • Plan
  • Frustration

• You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Angry
  • Greatness

• The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

  

  Allen W. Wood
  • Religion
  • Wretched
  • Anti-Enlightenment

• I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

  

  Jonathan Demme