Ted Demme Quotes
The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Because entrepreneurship is so hard and does take so long to build something great, you do have to build an environment that you yourself as an entrepreneur want to work in for the next 20 years.
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I don't really like to put stuff in a box as far as genre-specific.
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No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just 'it'.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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A lot of people misunderstand what it means to have good cardio. Good cardio is when you are able to push the fight, and I've shown that in all of my fights.
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The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
