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John Schlesinger Quotes

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

John Schlesinger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: February 16, 1926 - July 25, 2003

Topics

Place Kind Hollywood Extraordinary

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

Fear People World Society You Class

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

Animal Feet Duck Cow Pig Chicken

Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.

Security Need Social Security Social

So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.

Matthew Heineman

Over Days Gain Able Much Months

Being an actor is a nomadic profession, and I just try to feel at home wherever I am at that moment.

Home Moment I Am Feel Actor Try

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Relationship Persistence Talent Will

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

Jonathan Glazer

Work Time I Am One Thing Only Able

The run that I had - which really was, like, four months in the WWE - it wasn't great. But my opening day was great. My opening day was humongous. And then WrestleMania was pretty much my closing card. I did one 'Raw' after that, but that WrestleMania 18 match that I had with Christian, that was a hell of a match.

Diamond Dallas Page

Great Day Hell Christian Run Pretty

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

Cory Michael Smith

College Jazz Piano Pianist Studied

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

World Outside Programming Interest

Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

Good Best I Am Me Thought Wrong

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Anthony Hopkins

Laziness Cookies Weak Oh Spot Spots

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