Jonathan Demme Quotes

'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.

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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If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.

Melissa Mathison

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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Robert South

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In school, I always had to work harder than others.

John Schnatter

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When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.

John Ralston Saul

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I just want to do good work.

Tracey Ullman

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I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

Roger Daltrey

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Doing things like 'Extras' and 'Little Britain' keeps me in with the youngsters.

Ronnie Corbett

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Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

Michel Houellebecq

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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Joyce Maynard

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I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'

Joss Whedon

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My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

Denzel Washington

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