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World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
- Feature Films
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
- Bouncing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.
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- Nov 07, 2020