Period Quotes
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...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.
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'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.
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It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife.
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I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.
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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
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I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.
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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
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'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.
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I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'
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Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
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I secretly wish I had experienced advertising in the 'Mad Men' period.
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We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!
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'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
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Over the longer period of time it would move in exactly the wrong direction because it would encourage us to use more oil, not less.
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Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
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The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.
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I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.
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I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.
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I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.
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Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.
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Fashion has always had the ability to affect lives, to touch people. But for the longest period of time, we've said, 'Oh, we're just pages of a magazine; that's what we all look at.' It's more than that.
