Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
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Me, I don't need money.
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I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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If I do an interview with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
