Douglas Slocombe Quotes
The Eyemo was heavy and could be noisy. Once, I was in an auditorium filming a speech made by Goebbels when, suddenly, it decided to emit a huge snarling sound. Goebbels froze, and hundreds of uniformed Brownshirts turned and glared at me in anger. It was not a comfortable moment.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.
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Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
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It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.
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People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge.
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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'Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in,So shame on me now.Flew me to places I'd never been,So you put me down oh.
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Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.
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The Eyemo was heavy and could be noisy. Once, I was in an auditorium filming a speech made by Goebbels when, suddenly, it decided to emit a huge snarling sound. Goebbels froze, and hundreds of uniformed Brownshirts turned and glared at me in anger. It was not a comfortable moment.
