Jonathan Demme Quotes

I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.

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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Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Johann G. Seume

ManCircumstancesOutOnlyHeHis

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Ani DiFranco

LifeTimeLongYouLong TimeGone

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

RewardPersonBecomeGetHighest

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people.

Anand Giridharadas

PeopleYouAffectObserveRooted

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

Tom Hicks

BestWinTryingYearNextPosition

Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.

Tom Tancredo

CommunityHeartPeopleYouCountry

I've always been a texting advocate.

Mary H.K. Choi

AlwaysTextingAdvocateBeen

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Marvin Bower

ConfidenceBusinessDo The Right Thing

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

Lucy Larcom

GoodSunshineBestMePlantGrow

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.

Conor McGregor

TrainingThinkingFightingNewWant

I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that'd be really good for me - to disappear for a few years.

Brooklyn Beckham

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