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I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

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• Connection
• Camera
• Shots

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• Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Time
  • Day
  • Hair

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Personal

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• 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
  • Write

• The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Politics
  • Foundation

• There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Night
  • Sports

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Food
  • Really
  • Connoisseur

• I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!

  

  Warren Spector
  • School
  • New York
  • Stand

• We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • School
  • Kids
  • Age

• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Death
  • Silent

• In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Important
  • Transformation

• Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

  

  Hafez
  • Fortune
  • Wheel
  • Twists

• I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Understand
  • Explore
  • Little

• I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Know
  • Read

• She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • She

• You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Control
  • Health
  • Slavery

• We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.

  

  Ian Cohen
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Understanding

• The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Care
  • Years

• When I got into the end zone, I was so overcome with joy my mind went blank. I forgot everything my boys had showed me and I had to break down and celebrate with my teammates - the guys who helped me get there.

  

  Braylon Edwards
  • Joy
  • Celebrate
  • Teammates

• I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

  

  Eve Best
  • Reality
  • Connection
  • Camera