Solon Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte -
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
Nan Hayworth -
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
Fat Joe -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
Bear Grylls -
Kate Moss has great style.
Yigal Azrouël
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
Ramez Naam -
People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
Viggo Mortensen -
We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
Jack Ramsay -
I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
Mandy Patinkin -
I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
Ted Danson
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
Manish Dayal -
I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
Imelda May -
People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
Gary Wolf -
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy Friday -
My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
Yann Martel -
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.
Leo Tolstoy
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I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
Art Spiegelman -
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
Jacob K. Javits -
Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
Baltasar Kormakur -
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
Walter Murch -
Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.
Kevin Brady -
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon