Yasujirō Ozu Quotes
About this time [late 1950s], CinemaScope was getting popular. I wanted to have nothing to do with it, and consequently I shot more close-ups and used shorter shots.
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I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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I look with wonder at that which is before me.
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We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.
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You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
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Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
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In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.
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When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's only through story, reading books by Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi, that you really begin to understand the trauma and how horrible it actually was.
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I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
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I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.
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We got happy just taking the threes. After a tough game (a 95-89 loss at Detroit on Friday), you may not have the leg strength. That was key. We were trying to penetrate and kick. The shots didn't go down. Just don't blame it on shooting. You can never blame a loss on shooting. It's what you do defensively.
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See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.
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It's just that it's getting so bad. It's so obviously bad that rather than wait for there to be others who speak out with me, I'll just go ahead and do it on my own.
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About this time [late 1950s], CinemaScope was getting popular. I wanted to have nothing to do with it, and consequently I shot more close-ups and used shorter shots.
