- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture Quotes
On screen roles, old movies, and the camera's eye.
Here the word picture mostly means film - an actor discussing how to play a villain convincingly, and a childhood movie memory vivid enough to cause literal nightmares for years. Related viewing continues in Life.
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never would have dreamt in a million years that I would have young girls coming up to me at Glastonbury or on the streets of L.A., New York, London, and telling me how much GurlsTalk or seeing my picture in a magazine means to them, as a woman of colour.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate having my picture taken.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020