- Music
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that as kids we all picture ourselves as the princess, the prince, and not really ever as the housekeeper or the comical alpaca or llama or what have you - the sidekick. But as an adult, I'm such a huge fan of people who are funny and people who are, in very brief moments, able to do something that you would never think is possible.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.' She's like 'oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020