Christopher Lee Quotes

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

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• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Learning
  • Much
  • Perfecting

• In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Life
  • Art
  • Act

• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Hair

• Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Pretty

• It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Father
  • Responsibility

• In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Suffering
  • Order
  • Cruel

• I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Know
  • Impossible
  • I Can

• Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Lips

• Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Treat

• I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • She
  • Character
  • Passion

• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moral

• Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Women
  • Father
  • Man

• There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Force
  • Beat

• We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

  

  Anne Donovan

• That's a big important deal, the way people see you from the stage. Once in a while, I'd ask people, 'How did you enjoy the show?' 'Hey, you looked great.' But how did I sound? That visual look is very important to people.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Space

• When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

  

  William Kunstler
  • People
  • Justice
  • Police

• I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.

  

  David Douglas
  • Control
  • Relation
  • Cameras

• The pictures and dresses and official functions - that's my job, but it's not my whole life.

  

  Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
  • Life
  • Job
  • Functions

• I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Past

• Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • World

• Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

  

  Christopher Lee