Features Quotes - Page 8

• I'm drawn to look tough. The arched eyebrows are just there - I don't do them like that. I have strong features, but I wish I could be tougher.

  Eva Mendes

  Strong, Eyebrows, Wish

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

  Patrice Leconte

  Writing, Mirrors, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Lying, Thinking, Epic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.

  Chika Anadu

  Years, Two, Paris

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.

  Michael Brandt

  Goal, Today, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I think a reason why TV is exciting and getting so much better is because we [authors] get to play off of an actor's strengths and challenge them on their weaknesses. On a feature [film], you don't necessarily get to do that. You hope that they cast the right guy, who comes in and plays your part.

  Michael Brandt

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Mean, Facts

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• The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Mean, Reality, Knowing

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• We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

  Larry Wall

  People, Annoyed, Trying

  "2nd State of the Onion". www.perl.com. August 25, 1998.

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• The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.

  Jeff Lowe

  Wall, Rocks, Ice

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• Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Two, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.40, Haymarket Books

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• Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

  Scott Meyers

  Principles, Schedules, Development

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

  Erik Naggum

  Clever, Used And Abused, Insanity

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• The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A particularly striking idea of how things really were in Greece can be obtained from one feature of life - the sons who turned out badly.... the sons of gifted but arrogant fathers turned out merely arrogant, the grandsons hopeless; it is respect alone that sustains families and gives them traditions.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Father, Son, Ideas

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• When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.

  Bill Gates

  Issues, Choices, Needs

  "Bill Gates: Trustworthy Computing". www.wired.com. January 17, 2002.

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• The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

  Zadie Smith

  Cynical, Marketing, Quirky

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• It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

  Keith Rabois

  Responsibility, People, Giving

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

  Raul Garcia

  Long, Desire, Spain

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.

  Raul Garcia

  Zero, Independence, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."

  John Sayles

  Tv Shows, Two, Done

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• And as particles are living digital elements, moving on their own according to the various attributes (such as weight, speed, shape) given to them by the animator, we don't know what the visual result will be until everything is completed. This result can often be unsatisfying, obliging us to repeat the process all over again, with new features.

  Martine Epoque

  Moving, Often Is, Elements

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger

  Sophie Barthes

  Two, Tragedy, Different

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

  Edward Everett

  Teaching, Scripture, Republican

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• It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

  Tibor R. Machan

  Moral, Human Life, Humans

  Tibor R. Machan (2003). “The Passion for Liberty”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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