Features Quotes - Page 19

• One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

  James Buchan

  Novelists, Stories, Scruples

  "Sold, for two truckloads of oranges" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

  Gisele Bundchen

  Eye, Faces, Noses

  "Gisele: Supermodel Muse" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 11, 2009.

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• My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

  Carol Burnett

  Running, Grandmother, Eight

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• My features are completely ethnic.

  Naomi Campbell

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• Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mean, People, Wish

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• Television, cable, features are always out there.

  Kyle Chandler

  Television, Cables

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

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• I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

  Diablo Cody

  Children, Son, Years

  "Diablo Cody on the Challenge of Directing While Raising a Toddler, and Women in Film (Q&A)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

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• When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

  Joan Collins

  Twenties, Playboy, Considering

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• I think that it's really nice to learn that makeup is different for every person. Everyone has a different feature on their face that they like to show off.

  Lauren Conrad

  Nice, Makeup, Thinking

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• When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.

  Sloane Crosley

  Home, Glasses, Feet

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• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  Rachel Cusk

  Important, Fundamentals, Emotion

  "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

  Mitch Daniels

  Effort, Favors, Curry

  "Transcript: Daniels gives GOP response to State of the Union". www.cnn.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

  Stockwell Day

  Empires, Canada, Cabinets

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• I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

  Jacques Derrida

  Political, Intellectual, Roles

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press

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• My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

  Vin Diesel

  Mother, Book, Car

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• The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

  Paul Dirac

  Numbers, Theoretical Physics, Essentials

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• I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

  Marie Dressler

  Beautiful, Matter, Indifferent

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• There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Past, Vienna, Peculiar

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• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  Umberto Eco

  Philosophy, Lying, Want

  "Umberto Eco: 'People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

  Zac Efron

  Girl, Fashion, Dresses

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• One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

  Robert Fortune

  Flower, People, Lows

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China”, p.11

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• So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Beautiful, People, Culture

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• Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

  George III

  America, Evil, Kingdoms

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• One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

  Alison Gopnik

  Long, Childhood, Humans

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