William Cullen Bryant Quotes
A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.
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For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
Alex Graves
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
Kevin Spacey
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I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
Ted Shawn
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
Arthur George Gaston
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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura
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English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.
Leon Uris
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It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.
Lewis H. Lapham
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The only thing I can say is that people requested,when The Exorcist it going to be on the big screen? People want it on the big screen and they want to see the footage. I think it's going to do very well. I think it will please people, and the fact that they added the new sound.
Linda Blair
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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
Ian Gardner
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Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.
Dahlia Lithwick
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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Benjamin Cardozo
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
Dale Carnegie
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For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
Erich von Stroheim
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
G. M. Trevelyan
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The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.
Nina Conti
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There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!
William Morris Hunt