- Nov 07, 2020
Cecil Quotes
A name tied to family history and film spectacle.
These Cecil quotes move from a scientist recalling his father's general store in rural North Carolina to reflections on the golden age of Hollywood filmmaking. The name carries real family history alongside cinematic legend. More in Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.
- Nov 07, 2020
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
- Francis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020