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.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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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.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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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.
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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.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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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.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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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?'
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
