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movie special film
I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film. Alain Resnais
movie actors scripts
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's. Al Pacino
movie cutting play
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
movie thinking film-directing
Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good. Akira Kurosawa
movie sports art
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. Dave Barry
movies protected
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. M. Night Shyamalan
movies
I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies. Madhur Bhandarkar
movies
The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies. Joaquin Phoenix
movies music reason
The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent. John Hughes
past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come. Charles Caleb Colton
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide." Charles Dickens
past self years
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last. Charles Studd
past done lasts
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Charles Stross
past years judging
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago. Charles Spurgeon
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past puppets driven
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. Alan Watts
once-upon-a-time would-be ifs
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. Charles de Lint
once-upon-a-time godmother stories
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times. Diane Setterfield
once-upon-a-time ends happenings
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end. Dan Harmon
once-upon-a-time wrong-person persons
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Anne Tyler
once-upon-a-time
Once upon a time the English knew who they were. Anna Pavlova
once-upon-a-time
Once upon a time is now. Emilie Autumn
once-upon-a-time luck blame
Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that. Herta Muller
once-upon-a-time meetings ideals
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. Helen Oyeyemi
once-upon-a-time baltimore
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary. Gertrude Stein