Particular Quotes - Page 40

• Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

  Jason Alexander

  Stars, Looks, Television

  "THE CRAFTSMAN - For JASON ALEXANDER, life after Seinfeld is a lot like before: It's about the work". Interview with Rob Kendt, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2001.

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• Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

  Andreas Gursky

  Events, Facts, Claims

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• Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

  Charles Mingus

  Writing, Men, Style

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• We discovered this halfway through the process. When we started making the film there were some lines of dialogue in Portuguese, but we then changed our minds. The film started from very specific issues in the world, in particular Latin America, but halfway through the journey we felt the necessity to have more universal ideas that were not so specific.

  Alex Abreu

  Latin, Journey, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Fun, Character, Angel

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Directors, Film

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.

  Clint Eastwood

  Real, Character, Creating

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, you know, or whatever else we want to do.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Drinking, Moving, Character

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Talking, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Years, Personality

  "Meryl Streep: The Fresh Air Interview". kuer.org. February 6, 2012.

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• I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were talking about that actually, who also felt kind of silly. When we had to run she was like, 'Oh God, we're both going to get fired.' The running sequences, it's a particular kind of humiliation because it's fun.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Running, Fun, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

  Peter Morgan

  Six Months, Want, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been trying to do my boot line for 20 years, but no one thought there could be a vegan luxury brand. So I funded this myself. I feel like it is time. I feel like young people in particular are responding to this.

  Pamela Anderson

  Years, Luxury, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

  Jello Biafra

  San Francisco, Different, Band

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Whatever happened billions of years ago, that's what were we come from. For people who have hate and anger towards each other just because they've been socially conformed or socially... conditioned to their particular country, doesn't mean that you're not like everyone else in the rest of the world and doesn't mean you should go around hating everybody.

  Cristian Machado

  Country, Hate, Mean

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me. And I have felt like a wayfarer on an alien planet at times - walking, running, wondering about what brought me to this particular place, and why. But once I was here the dreams started moving in, and I went about devouring them as they devoured me.

  Gordon Parks

  Running, Dream, Moving

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• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Past, Soldier, Spheres

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• Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

  Hans Haacke

  Photography, Tasks, Use

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• I've never tried to drive my career in any particular direction. I've always been an in-the-moment, live-for-today guy. I've never had a goal, and nearly everything I've done has been an accident. I just play to me, and if I can amuse myself, I consider it a victory.

  Doug Stanhope

  Play, Careers, Goal

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• Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Might, Vantage Point

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• Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

  Steve Coppell

  England, Shirts, Referee

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• The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

  Sally Mann

  Children, Light, Expression

  Sally Mann (2015). “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Hands, Class, People

  David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”

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• A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby.

  Dana Gould

  Song, People, Matter

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• Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

  J. B. Smoove

  Men, Six, Seven

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