Jonathan Demme Quotes
The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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I can't wait 'til the world embraces Chicago - not only for our talent, but just to visit our city and not be so scared to come to it and not be subjected to what people's perception is of it.
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I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary.
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The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'.
