John Sayles Quotes

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.

John Sayles

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Every mom is ready to get her life and body back.

Joanna Garcia

LifeMomBodyBackReadyHer

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Robert McNamara

WomenChildrenMenDeathWinDoing

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.

Matthew Ashford

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All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

Ann Cotton

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If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

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Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

Amy Poehler

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I think Bezos is incredible.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.

Michael Owen

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I was studying tourism at college and wanted to travel the world as a tour guide - that was my dream! But actually, sometimes modeling feels quite similar, because I travel so much - probably even more than tour guiding.

Liu Wen

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God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

Douglas Coupland

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I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be a nightmare if it were the other way around. But it's sometimes a little disheartening.

Christian Slater

GratefulPeopleSometimesWayLittle

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Anthony Hopkins

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