Robert Wise Quotes

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Research
  • Academic
  • Storyteller

• I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

  

  Nas
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Words

• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • You
  • Feminism

• 'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Sports
  • Playing
  • Speed

• My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Said
  • Try

• When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Street

• Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Law
  • U.S.
  • Between

• There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Years
  • Questions
  • Ask

• I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Want
  • Years
  • Holiday

• I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Act

• I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • You
  • Try

• I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Competition
  • Writers
  • Encouraging

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.

  

  Larry King
  • Good
  • Think
  • Tomorrow

• We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Up
  • Important
  • Meetings

• Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Trying
  • Wise
  • Fool

• I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Think
  • Curiosity

• Unfortunately, Bruce Rauner is more committed to playing politics than fighting for Illinois women and families.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Women
  • Fighting
  • Politics

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Change
  • Motorcycle

• Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Why
  • Political

• I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

  

  Big Money
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Major Leagues

• You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

  

  Robert Wise
  • Something
  • Without
  • Having