John Sayles Quotes

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

John Sayles

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I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Joan Jett

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When you have something that you did so many jobs on and were so front and center on, and then people dislike it, you want to learn lessons from it, and you want to move on, and you want to move on too fast.

John Mulaney

PeopleLearnYouFastMove OnWant

I have an iPhone. I like it for the camera and the fact that you can have your email and Twitter and all that stuff in one place. However, unlike most men I know, I hate buying new technology.

John Niven

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In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Spiro T. Agnew

TodayMoreShareUnitedThanOur

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.

Steven Van Zandt

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The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.

Simon Conway Morris

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I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

Simon Rattle

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Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Russell M. Nelson

HappyBe HappySaintsEvery

One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.

Luise Rainer

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I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

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Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Jonathan Ive

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When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Denzel Washington

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