Eric Rohmer Quotes

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing.

Eric Rohmer

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• I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Fire

• An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Think

• When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Question

• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do … There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.

  

  Ben Stiller
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Movie

• The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Complacency

• In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.

  

  Charles Palliser
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Player

• Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Up
  • Thinking

• At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Smart

• Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Thinking
  • Small
  • Technology

• I mean, I'm lucky because I've slimmed down, but the last thing I was thinking about was losing weight.

  

  Denise Van Outen
  • Thinking

• I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it's going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place.

  

  Lee Hall
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Question

• After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

  

  John Hartford
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Stop

• I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Thinking

• One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

  

  John Badham
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Running

• The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Idea
  • Opens

• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Music
  • Giving
  • Food

• Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Heart
  • Brain

• It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Subject
  • Provinces
  • Vicissitudes

• And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other runners know you are in a hurry even if you are. You can always overtake on long-distance running without letting others smell the hurry in you.

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • Running
  • Hurry
  • Tips

• But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing.

  

  Eric Rohmer
  • Thinking
  • Read
  • Monopolized