Nasreddin Quotes
"The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?" he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more."Nasreddin
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
Viggo Mortensen -
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike -
I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
Mahesh Babu -
'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.
Warren Littlefield -
There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
Ian Mckellen -
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
Barry Eisler
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
Daniel Boone -
There is a favourite in every family; and, generally speaking, that favourite is the most troublesome member in it.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce -
A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.
Javier Camara -
I'm never really happy with anything I do.
Kristaps Porzingis -
I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.
Matthew Pearl
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When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.
Frankie Cosmos -
Getting to wear beautiful fashion is the most fun part of the job that has nothing to do with the job.
Christina Hendricks -
The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
As a kid, I had to be funny.
Jamie Farr -
With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
Neil Marshall -
All the things I love is what my business is all about.
Martha Stewart
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The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.
Charlotte Rampling -
I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.
Brooke Elliott -
I grew up where the repercussion of you having an opinion was being 'cocky,' or people would be mad at you. And I have finally learnt that it is better for them to be mad at you and disagree than you be so mad at yourself all of the time for not speaking up.
Paula Pell -
Is evolution a theory, a system or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.
Ray Bradbury -
"The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?" he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more."
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