Norman McLaren Quotes

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

Norman McLaren

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• I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Future
  • Peace
  • Process

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fans

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Homosexuality

• I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Law
  • Play
  • Politics

• AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Disaster

• You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

  

  Pam Grier
  • You
  • Everything
  • Top

• Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deserve
  • Ways
  • Agree

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • Language
  • Body
  • Doing

• Hawaii is absolutely beautiful.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Beautiful
  • Hawaii

• Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Time
  • Effort

• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Film

• Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Color

• One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger.

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Poetry
  • Brutality
  • Thumb

• The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Personality
  • Around
  • Paragraphs

• I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

  

  Norman McLaren
  • Film
  • Color