Period Quotes
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As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
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I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.
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I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.
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Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!
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Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of solitude. No flashbacks and no backstory. Let's have no more back story!
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After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
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We want to find a permanent solution to the DACA population, not a continual three-year renewal period.
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
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Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.
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Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
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I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids - even when they're tired, even when they're bouncing off the walls.
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I'm an ER doctor, period. I look at a problem with a certain lens: very action-oriented, very results-oriented.
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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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I try to play the same way, play the same way over a longer period of time.
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I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.
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Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.
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In some environments, roles shift and change each period depending on what the company's needs are. On the other hand, many functional roles can become very repetitive if you perform similar tasks over and over again.
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I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.
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I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.
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Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
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He was challenged after the first period, whether it was internally or externally, he was challenged. And he rose up to that challenge. I think that's important for any player.
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The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.
