Book Quote by Martin Scorsese Download Open image “My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.” — Martin Scorsese ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Class Go House Italian Italian american Parent Parenting Parents School Working class
So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
We'd had books in my house growing up, but we had never had anything like lectures. I had never written an essay for my… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved. — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image