Jonathan Demme Quotes

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

Jonathan Demme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodTodayTimeWorldStoryYou

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Anatole France

LifeShortKnowWantWillEternal

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

John Ortberg

LeadershipSpiritualWillNeedOut

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

MomMotherhoodEverythingEffect

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin

ManSmallUpPrettyPackageHe

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

John Sebastian

StyleSongTryingTelevisionWay

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

Sophie B. Hawkins

MeAheadTeachersAlwaysYearsFour

I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.

Steve Largent

PositiveLoveRespectSacrificeMe

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.

Julia Holter

MusicExperienceMenWorldSaying

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

Clint Eastwood

GreatWouldStillMakingFilms

The feeling, the sensation behind it is, it's exciting to cherry pick and select and be your own boss and to be in control of your own brand; however, it's a lot of work.

Cody Rhodes

WorkBossControlBrandFeelingOwn

The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don't want to hear the other side.

Bobby Berk

PeopleNewsWantTurnOutSide

As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?

Bob Beckel

LieTrainingLearnYouPerfectFast

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