Jonathan Demme Quotes

In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show was like seeing a movie just waiting to be filmed.

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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WaitingTalkingSeeingEarlySee

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

KnowledgeAloneExperienceWorth

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

John Gould

GreatPeopleAmericanNewspaperOur

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

Andrew Weil

LifeWorkWalkWordsBusyThink

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

John Mellencamp

FutureTruthGreatTimeDepression

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

John Henrik Clarke

BeginningPeopleWorldInformation

There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've eaten, than the stuff that they don't realize is also going into foreign computers. Like, for example, copies of your emails or every single online search you ever do, 'cause all that is being recorded as well.

Mikko Hypponen

PeopleComputersSearchYouPictures

I have inherited nothing. Everything Ann and I have we have earned the old-fashioned way.

Mitt Romney

NothingWayEverythingEarned

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Joseph Conrad

NatureButterflyManWillNeverMud

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

Jonathan Brandis

MotherManagerKnowsExactly

I am the first to admit that I have never been a household name.

Dominic Holland

I AmNameAdmitNeverFirstBeen

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

Debra Jo Rupp

YourselfBelieveThinkDoingYou

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

Douglas Coupland

WorldEndEnd Of The WorldWestJust

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