- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Electricity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
- Forcible
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- Nov 07, 2020
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have regrets, it's around my sons. There is no doubt they were affected by the divorce - Carter more than Blaine, I think.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters - kind of like watching Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin.
- Rare
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more than themes. Themes are boring. Themes are, 'Wool is back,' but ideas are, 'Why is wool back?'
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020