Douglas Sirk Quotes

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

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• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Me
  • Talent

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Fighting
  • Pressure

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Light
  • Forever

• My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Father

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Like
  • Really
  • Wearing

• I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Exciting
  • Quite
  • Improvisation

• You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Work
  • Space

• Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Die
  • Living
  • Knowing

• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Party
  • Single

• The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Dark
  • Sound
  • Lake

• We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Law
  • Abuse

• The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Job

• The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Way
  • Memories
  • Charity

• It's a pure dream team to work with Hrithik, Sanjay sir and Rakesh sir.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Team

• Other than our love our labor is one of the most sacred gifts we can give. When your labor is your love, life is sacred. Love what you do or change.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Energy
  • Unique
  • Perspective

• Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

  

  Douglas Sirk