William Friedkin Quotes
To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
William Friedkin
Quotes to Explore
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
M. J. Rose
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
Nazanin Boniadi
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Hans Jonas
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
Barry Eisler
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles Lamb
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
Fernando Botero
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The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, 'When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?' The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, 'Yes!'
Anthony de Mello
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
Charles Baudelaire
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China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.
Muddy Waters
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To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
William Friedkin
