Ansel Adams Quotes
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
Quotes to Explore
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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
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In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense. No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is a matter of right.
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Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
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Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.
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It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.
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As far as "uncut" I think we all know that you guys cut up the special. Originally it was going to be 2 hours plus and it got chopped down so I said "we can't use those words because it's not going to represent me right".
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There is no set way of getting a role - you don't give an exam, score well, and then nail a film.
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Everything is generated through your own will power.
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Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
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Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.
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Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
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I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test and test it, whatnot. Having said that, there's one sequence we're adding back into the movie for the extended cut that is pretty amazing that I think people are going to love.
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The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
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Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer. Memory re-creates them from the back, from the front, or sideways, but to them it makes no difference.
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Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
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Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.
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The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
