Breaking Silence Quotes - Page 3

• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  Frances McDormand

  Men, Car, Silence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

  Donal Logue

  Dvds, Silence, Finishing

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• What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Banking, Literature, Bankers

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.204, A&C Black

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• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Mean, Bread

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• We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Silence, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Tunnels, Voice

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Years, Silence, Twenties

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.17, New York Review of Books

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• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  Earl Browder

  War, Utterance, Lines

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• So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Becoming The Best, Locks, Agendas

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• One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

  Roy Barnes

  Law, Long, People

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• It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

  Jeri Ryan

  Past, Play, Point Break

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Silence, Generations

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• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  Aaron Spelling

  Violent Acts, Silence, Television

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• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Silence, Breaking Down

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