Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
Quotes to Explore
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
Manika
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
Adam Grant
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Felix Frankfurter
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
Patrick Kane
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
Felix Dennis
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
Larry the Cable Guy
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
Daniel Cormier
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
Oona Chaplin
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There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
Utada Hikaru
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He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
Edwin Markham
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I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.
Jennifer Hyman
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I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.
John Carpenter
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
Bayard Taylor
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Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
Chuck D
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'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher