King Vidor Quotes

The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Career
  • Been
  • Focused

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Me
  • Never
  • Animal

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Game
  • Funny
  • Baseball

• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • History
  • Black

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Judgment
  • Collective

• People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Want
  • Seriously

• Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Pretty
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Different
  • Power
  • Always

• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • I Can

• Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

  

  Kaki King
  • Know
  • Australia
  • Sydney

• Wherever I find love I will accept it.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Love
  • Find
  • For Her

• I like to exercise in the morning before work. It puts me in a good mood, which makes my coworkers happy, and jump-starts my brain, which makes me happy.

  

  Betsy Beers
  • Good
  • Work
  • Happy

• Power always works from the corner office.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Power
  • Office
  • Corners

• 'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Road

• The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.

  

  King Vidor
  • Work
  • Past
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