John Ford Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
-- John FordSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”
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“I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.”
-- John FordSource : 'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 1, sc. 3
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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.”
-- John FordSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.”
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“Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.”
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“Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!”
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“What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.”
-- John FordSource : John Ford (2014). “'Tis Pity She's a Whore”, p.117, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Truth is child of Time.”
-- John FordSource : John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.156, Manchester University Press
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“Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.”
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“Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.”
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“Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.”
-- John FordSource : John Ford (1811). “John Ford's Dramatic Works”, p.139
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“Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.”
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“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
-- John FordSource : John Ford (1827). “Dramatic works of John Ford ...”, p.274
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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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“It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.”
-- John FordSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.”
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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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“Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.”
-- John FordSource : John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.97, Manchester University Press
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“Busy opinion is an idle fool.”
-- John FordSource : 1633 ' Tis Pity She's a Whore, act 5, sc.3.
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“The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.”
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“Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?”
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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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“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.”
-- John FordSource : 'The Broken Heart' (1633) act 2, sc. 2
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“They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.”
-- John FordSource : John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.34, Manchester University Press
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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.”
-- John Ford
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