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Jonathan Demme Quotes

I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music People Seeing Visualize Up

My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Man Stupid Thought Details Attention

If Congress can strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over school prayer cases, there is no provision in the Constitution immune from congressional tampering.

Prayer School Constitution Congress

I'd like to be the next Oprah financially, but I'm not a TV actor. I'm not someone with an entertainment background, I'm a cop. And I'm not afraid to go anywhere and get down and dirty.

Someone Dirty Down Go Actor Afraid

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

Art Culture Society Believe Relevant

For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.

Life Friend Time Loved My Life Kind

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

Time Win Distance Go Three Everyone

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Janice Dickinson

Go Muse Versace Could Klein

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Great Perfection Start Key Learn

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Work Relationship History Prayer

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

Jonathan Carroll

Me You Dangerous Try Write Audience

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

God Faith I Am Stand Die You

I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else.

Time Design Learn Clothes Create

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