Jonathan Demme Quotes

When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.

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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I started training again four months after giving birth, and it was strange not to be fully in control - I'm so used to my body performing at a certain level, but it wasn't. I was like, 'Oh, man, can we go back to where we were, please?'

Jessica Ennis-Hill

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I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Jennifer Egan

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I eat mostly vegetables and fish.

Andrew Tan

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When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn't stand up for them.

Jean-Luc Godard

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The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Michael Chiklis

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I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

Sonny Rollins

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I've worked as grocery store cashier; I've worked at a bank call center and as a Lady Liberty for Liberty Tax Service dancing around with the sign for a while.

Ron Funches

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People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.

Minnie Driver

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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

Louis Armstrong

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I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

Dick Gephardt

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Our commitment to integrity, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, to respecting our teammates - that's what makes this business work.

Dennis Muilenburg

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Me, I'm a working-class man, and I go to my job, put in the work, and walk away clean and unscathed, and I like it that way.

Demetrious Johnson

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