Jonathan Demme Quotes

Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

Jonathan Demme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1944 - April 26, 2017

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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Jill McCorkle

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I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.

Max Thieriot

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It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.

Matt McGorry

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The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Alvin Toffler

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I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

Stephanie Kwolek

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I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.

Mike Pence

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I want to thank the public, so I have to keep doing what I do, which is keep winning medals for my country.

Mo Farah

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The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Jose Bergamin

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I'm definitely very excited to see Cormier fight Brock Lesnar. I think Daniel Cormier wins the fight. He's just too fast. I feel like, when I fought him, he was quicker than me with certain combinations. I can only imagine he's going to be a lot quicker than Brock Lesnar.

Jon Jones

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I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.

Brandon Webb

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One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Branford Marsalis

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My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'

Art Malik

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