Arthur Penn Quotes
I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through one's own experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.
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I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.
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I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.
