Lines Quotes

• Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

  

  Sarah Wayne Callies
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Brain

• The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tree
  • Lines
  • Bottom

• I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Ideas
  • Meetings
  • Hundred

• Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Drawing
  • Lines
  • Watches

• Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Names
  • Lines
  • Deadline

• Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

  

  Sarah Dunn
  • People
  • Life
  • Mistakes

• It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Future
  • England
  • London

• All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Evil
  • Film
  • Made

• The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Mean
  • Successful
  • Roles

• And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

  

  David Bowie
  • Band
  • Grows
  • Behinds

• As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Remember
  • Moon
  • Facts

• I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Writing
  • Lines
  • Closing

• The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Important
  • Film
  • Feels

• There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Lines
  • Blurry

• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Discipline

• You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Color
  • Lines
  • Equator

• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Feels

• So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.

  

  Hunter Tylo
  • Kids
  • Church
  • Certain

• The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Choices
  • Might

• If you have the ability to desire it, the Universe has the ability to deliver it. You've just got to line up with what you want, which means— be as happy as you can be as often as you can be there, and let everything else take care of itself.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Desire
  • Universe
  • Care

• I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Music
  • Important
  • Dialogue

• [Kyle Chandler] taught me how to listen very well and reacting. There's a lot of improv. And to be able to do that on the spot you really have to be in tune with what the other person is saying instead of just waiting for your cue line or waiting for a word for you to deliver your next line.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Waiting
  • Able
  • Lines

• I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Write
  • Lines
  • Around

• It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

  

  Richard McCabe
  • Light
  • Mean
  • Understanding

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