Don Ameche Quotes
In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.
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In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
