Nicholas Pileggi Quotes

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Better

• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Respect
  • Relationship
  • Leaving

• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Different
  • Together
  • Mother

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Me

• I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Guy

• The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Free
  • Law
  • Control

• In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • God
  • Culture

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stupid
  • Better
  • Intelligent

• A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Reality
  • Take

• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Me
  • Kind

• I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Age

• From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Speak
  • Now
  • England

• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • High
  • Respect

• It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Financial
  • Resources
  • Financial system

• As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

  

  Nicholas Pileggi
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Gangster