Parks Quotes - Page 26

• I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Kings, Echoes, Parent

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". Interview with MovieWeb, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Mean, Creating, Growing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

  Jay-Z

  Mean, Albums, Linkin Park

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.

  Val Kilmer

  Actors, Born, Hospitals

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• When I was about 16, I did a Neil LaBute play called 'A Gaggle of Saints' from a collection of plays called 'Bash' - very violent story about a young Mormon who goes to Central Park with his friend and beats up a gay guy. But it was the first thing I had ever done, and I thought, "God, this is fun! This is far more fun than anything else I've been doing at school. I want to stick with it."

  Max Irons

  Fun, School, Gay

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

  Sally Mann

  Eye, Bookstores, Interest

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.

  Edward Norton

  New York, Successful, Effort

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Landon Palmer, filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Well I remember the first thing that from coming from New York that just stunned me and I couldn't understand was that you valet park for everything. Even - you valet park to go to the dry cleaner. And that, you know, that just blew my mind. I was like, okay, you have to pay $5 to a guy to just drop off your dry cleaning. And so that, to me, was nuts - the fact you're always arriving.

  Debra Messing

  New York, Nuts, Dry Cleaning

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Frederick Law Olmsted (2016). “Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society”, p.426, Library of America

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• Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

  Geoff Thompson

  Football, Goal, Balls

  Geoff Thompson (2007). “The Elephant And The Twig: The Art of Positive Thinking”, p.99, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW

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• We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

  Paul Kurtz

  Art, Good Life, Cheer

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• If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

  Bruce Schneier

  House, Cameras, Justified

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• The heart of a city Is the soul of a man It winds like a river Through the heart of the land They can tear down a building They can tear down a park They can strike at a symbol But they can't strike the heart.

  Janis Ian

  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

  Cleveland Amory

  Mules, Faces, Swallowing

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• I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cities, Committees, Statues

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• I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Space, Sound, Green

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.

  Jock Stein

  Past, Celtic Park, Want

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• The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

  Roger Angell

  Home, Feet, Two

  Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Dream, Winning, Control Myself

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• Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.

  Jay Inslee

  Cities, Air, Atmosphere

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• There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.

  Yair Lapid

  Differences, Community, Joining

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• Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.

  Charles Landry

  Technology, Order, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The same applies for Dublin, which manages to achieve a blend of complexity, tolerance and artistry and makes a point of not devoting every part of the city to the tourism industry. Sometimes creativity also means forgoing short-term profits and simply saying no.

  Charles Landry

  Educational, Mean, Creativity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I like Central Park better than the wilderness, and I like the canyons of Manhattan better than Central Park, and I like the interior of my apartment better than the canyons of Manhattan, and I like my two rooms better with the shades down at all times than with the shades up. I'm not an agoraphobe at all, but I am a claustrophile, if you see the distinction.

  Isaac Asimov

  Central Park, Two, Manhattan

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