Paul Morrissey Quotes

Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense of comedy.

Paul Morrissey

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I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.

John Legend

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I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.

Tom Welling

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I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time.

Ronny Chieng

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There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul.

Lisa Jewell

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I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

Joyce DeWitt

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When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting.

Joshua Cohen

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One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.

Derek Cianfrance

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As outrageously counter-intuitive as this might seem, the most hardened terrorists and criminals are often extremely willing to brag about the terrible things they've done, the unlikely places that they have been hiding, the important people that they know and deal with, and the plans they have been working on for the future.

Chelsea Manning

FuturePeopleKnowDoneImportant

I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.

Colin Salmon

LifeYouDownToo MuchNewsHandle

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

Connie Stevens

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I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

Ansel Elgort

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Being a World Cup winner was a dream come true.

Ali Krieger

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