King Vidor Quotes

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

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• Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Up
  • Done
  • She

• I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Doing

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Art
  • College
  • Painting

• My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Day

• Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Like
  • Hero
  • See

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • First
  • Learned
  • Theme

• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Story

• I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

  

  J. F. Powers
  • God
  • Man
  • Earth

• I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

  

  Marcia Wallace
  • People
  • Together
  • Deep

• Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pain

• It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Women
  • Power
  • Opinion

• Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Future

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

  

  King Vidor
  • Hand
  • Opinion
  • Picture