Robert Wise Quotes

You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

Robert Wise

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• Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.

  

  Kate Reardon
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• We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

  

  Webb Simpson
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• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
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  • Country
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• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Three
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• There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.

  

  Olivia Colman
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  • Time
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• I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • Song
  • Little Things

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Risk
  • Guilt
  • Innocence

• I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Couple

• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

  

  Edith Head
  • Good
  • She
  • Black

• It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Football
  • Beginning

• The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

  

  Karl Radek
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• The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
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• The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • High
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• Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Know
  • Understand

• While I try to avoid toxic ingredients like parabens, phthalates, and petrochemicals, I like to dig deeper into the contents of these beauty staples.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

• I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Discipline
  • Losing
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• When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

  

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• My life changes dramatically every time I get up out of bed. After my proposal life changed in that I wasn't asked to change. I always thought that marriage meant someone was going to ask you to stop being who you were. And I met someone who not only wants me to be who I am but likes it. So, my life changed in that my views towards marriage stopped being morbid. I found I was ready to be a good partner where I don't think I was a very good partner to people before. I stepped up my game.

  

  Sandra Bullock
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• The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

  

  Phil McGleno
  • Life
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• You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

  

  Robert Wise
  • People
  • Because
  • Opposite