Walter Murch Quotes
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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A novel is not a rant.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
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Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write music and become a good songwriter.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
