- Dad
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
- Moving Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.
- Craves
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go out, I'm always dressed up. Not in drag but always prepared to be 'on.' Just in case somebody's going to take a picture. Everyone has a Facebook page, so no matter what, I'm prepared to service the public.
- Nov 07, 2020
I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually played out and out heavies. No one else 'saw' me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. 'There is the man for Julio,' she said, 'He, and no one other.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020