Michael Huffington Quotes
We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
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When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
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I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.
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We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.
