Ray Harryhausen Quotes
I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I can't go to war with paparazzi.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
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Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
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It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
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Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
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I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
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[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."
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And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.
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As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.
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I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
