Ted Demme Quotes

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

Ted Demme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1963 - January 13, 2002

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You get so addicted to winning that you don't want that feeling to stop.

Jerry West

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Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.

Joel Coen

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Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

John Simon

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I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

Amanda Palmer

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I'd stay away from investments in a variety of sectors that are capital intensive. Anyone who says we need $100 million before we know if what we're doing makes sense and the customers want it - that's not going to work.

Steve Jurvetson

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Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

Michelle Obama

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There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.

Sushant Singh Rajput

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I will benefit from being a part of this industry, but I also want the industry to benefit from me.

Tiger Shroff

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You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Thomas J. Watson

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There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Norah Jones

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Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Mark Zuckerberg

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I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity.

Guillermo del Toro

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