Bernard Herrmann Quotes
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.
Quotes to Explore
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Think and grow rich.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.
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I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.
