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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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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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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The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.
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If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.
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I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
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I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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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.
