- Nov 07, 2020
Distance Quotes
How distance changes what we see and feel.
Several of these quotes treat distance as a matter of perspective - a fairy-land view of literature that loses its charm on closer approach, and a photographer describing every horizon as revealing another beyond it. See Far quotes for a related angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
- Exquisitely
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learn to distance yourself from the criticism.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020