Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant -
I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
Gabrielle Anwar -
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
Olivia Colman -
Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
Callum McDougall -
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty -
I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
Maeve Binchy
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
Samantha Morton -
The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
Wang Leehom -
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
Rachel Cusk -
If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
Lara Stone -
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
Dan Pallotta
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
Gabriel Lippmann -
Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
Yair Lapid -
Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
Magnus Larsson -
The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests.
Samantha Power -
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
Oscar Wilde -
As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
Warren Farrell
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People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
John McWhorter -
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
Eric Kandel -
The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession.
Claudia Schiffer -
I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
Candy Crowley -
You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.
Jon Feltheimer -
All good work requires self-revelation.
Sidney Lumet