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John Schlesinger Quotes

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

John Schlesinger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Tongue Bad Never Something Been

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Failure Fear Determined Fail

Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.

Black Born Streets Where Coal Songs

I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.

Beach Me Remember Hearing Beatles

People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.

Business History People Think First

I suppose I'm going on stage and making jokes about the fact that the audience are expecting the show to be about something and that they might learn something.

Andrew Lawrence

Learn Stage Audience Jokes Going

Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

Love Home Mind Friends Doing You

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Space People Design Feel You Quiet

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

Respect Me Pressure You Look Know

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

Me Profile Gone Because Show Like

I think, basically, we didn't hurt anyone. We were out there having a good time. You can go and get educated, but you can come to 'Hee Haw' and get another education.

Education Good Time Think Hurt You

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Work Time Best Chance Colleagues

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Africa Narrative Because Colonialism

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