Ted Demme Quotes
That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I like sitting close to windows.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made.
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There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
