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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Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
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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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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
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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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Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.
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Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.
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At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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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.
