Jonathan Demme Quotes
I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.
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Easy doesn't do it.
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I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You knew all about the Revolution, and you still had Civil War veterans.
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I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.