Emmanuel Lubezki Quotes

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Emmanuel Lubezki

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• I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Problem

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Always
  • Humanity
  • Save

• I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Private

• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Want
  • Me
  • Inspired

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • First
  • Literary
  • Meant To Be

• Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Need

• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Change
  • Something
  • Expected

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Alone
  • Nice
  • Lonely

• I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Simple
  • Just
  • Chicken

• I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Want
  • Door

• The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to give people something they can enjoy in a private situation or walking around, just as the soundtrack of their lives.

  

  Alex Ebert
  • People
  • Nice
  • Walking

• You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Work

• I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear... I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Playing
  • Ear

• I think the reason we're all in this band it's because it's a good way for us to express our feelings. We're much better at doing it through our music than we are in, kind of normal ways. I'm comfortable playing to 40,000 people, but if I have to speak to a group of four people, I'd probably go a deep read and start dribbling. I normally feel, whatever I've got to say, I've said it in the songs.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • People
  • Music
  • Band

• The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

  

  Emmanuel Lubezki
  • Music