Jonathan Demme Quotes

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.

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 wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.

Jess Glynne

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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Jesse Jackson

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During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'

Max von Sydow

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People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.

John Lasseter

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You can't write a book about Hillary Clinton and not anticipate some blowback, so I always knew it was going to be something.

Amy Chozick

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When I first found out what a show runner was, I thought it was the strangest job I had heard of in my life.

Stephanie Savage

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Music is a big thing for me when I'm shooting. It gets me in a groove.

Sofia Richie

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I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

Roger Stone

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The only people that can make peace are the parties to the conflict, and just as they are responsible for the conflict and its consequences, so should they be given responsibility and recognition for the peace.

Martti Ahtisaari

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The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!

Jay Electronica

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I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

Dick Dale

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If you want to know my character, look at the kids I've raised.

Sean Duffy

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