Edith Head Quotes
Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
Quotes to Explore
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
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I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.
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If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
