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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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- Comparatively
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- Nov 07, 2020
A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.
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- Nov 07, 2020