John Ford Quotes
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A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
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Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
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I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.
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Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
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Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
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When in doubt, make a western.
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Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.
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Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.
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Busy opinion is an idle fool.
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Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
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They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.
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It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
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Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
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Love is a tyrant, resisted.
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Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.
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I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.
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The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
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Diamonds cut diamonds.
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Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.
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He hath shook hands with time.
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Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
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I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
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Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
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What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.
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Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.
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How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
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The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.
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I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.
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Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
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Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.
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