Robert Wise Quotes

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

Robert Wise

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  

  Daniel Boone
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• If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

  

  Adam Carolla
  • She
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• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
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• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
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• I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
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• Everyone is capable of everything.

  

  Damien Rice
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• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
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• I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
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• I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Moment
  • Mountain
  • Mountains

• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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• I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Help
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• I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • God
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• When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

  

  Claude Bernard
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• When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • President
  • Enemies
  • Abraham Lincoln

• God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • God
  • Mistake

• In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • College
  • Band

• I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when it comes to building a strong relationship, especially the very last one.

  

  F. Burton Howard
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

  

  Robert Wise
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Director