Oliver DeMille Quotes
What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
Quotes to Explore
-
'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
-
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
-
I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
-
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
-
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
-
You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
-
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
-
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
-
My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
-
I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
-
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
-
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
-
I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
-
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
-
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
-
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
-
I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.
-
The ideas that define Western civilization, Nietzsche said, are based on Christianity. Because some of these ideas seem to have taken on a life of their own, we might have the illusion that we can abandon Christianity while retaining them. This illusion, Nietzsche warns us, is just that. Remove Christianity and the ideas fall too.
-
The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
-
What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
