Douglas Sirk Quotes
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.Douglas Sirk
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
Lance Henriksen -
I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
Natasha Lyonne -
I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
Ted Turner -
Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
Foster Friess -
I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
Tamora Pierce -
The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.
Tamron Hall
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In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.
Victoria Pendleton -
Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
Carl Sandburg -
Enemies of Syria are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
Bashar al-Assad -
We were exploring this inner realm of consciousness that we had been theorizing about all these years and suddenly we were traveling in and through and around it.
Ram Dass -
Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
Yanis Varoufakis
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If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What can one do?' 'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'
Agatha Christie -
I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter Because the flesh will get weak And the ashes will scatter So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if you don't love me anymore.
Don Henley The Eagles -
One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.
Auguste Rodin -
It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that which is void of harmony from that which is harmonized. ...But there is no difference, whether this is asserted of harmony, or of order, or composition... the same reason will apply to all of these.
Aristotle -
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold -
What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
Marissa Mayer -
The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.
Bill Kristol -
Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.
Tyson Fury -
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
Douglas Sirk