John Schlesinger Quotes

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

John Schlesinger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

Jesse Ventura

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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.

John Reid

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Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

Sigmund Freud

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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Martin Scorsese

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My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.

Lowell Bergman

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My viewers are smart. They know I have a contract with a TV show and that I make a lot of money.

Judy Sheindlin

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My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

Didi Conn

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Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

Deborah Moggach

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There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

Christian Louboutin

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I was a big Transformers fan.

Brad Delson

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