Jonathan Demme Quotes
It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good doctor in 'The Elephant Man'. He had been as believable a doctor as you can imagine, and he was good.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.
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Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.
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I want my performance to be at the highest level of anybody in the company. I want to make everybody step up to me.
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good doctor in 'The Elephant Man'. He had been as believable a doctor as you can imagine, and he was good.
