Periods Quotes - Page 13

• A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

  Donnie Yen

  Example, Body, Gestures

  "Action Star Donnie Yen Talks DRAGON, Why He Turned Down THE EXPENDABLES 2, Period Versus Modern, Whether Breaking Out in the U.S. is a Goal, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.

  Donnie Yen

  Character, Challenges, Historical

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• Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

  Rufus Sewell

  Lonely, Long, Gone

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• All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Gambling, Sick

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• The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

  Cyndi Lauper

  People, Creative, Brave

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• I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

  Antonia Thomas

  Drama, Race, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.

  Skylar Astin

  Jobs, Fun, Drama

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, Generations, Problem

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• It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".

  Constant Lambert

  Fun, Should Have, Spinning

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.

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• In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.

  Mark Pesce

  Believe, Moving, Historical

  "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, hyperreal.org.

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• The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).

  Venita VanCaspel

  Real, Important, Pieces

  Venita VanCaspel (1986). “Money dynamics for the new economy”, Simon & Schuster

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• I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.

  Margaret Morse Nice

  Baby, Caring, Years

  Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn

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• Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Dog, Sex, Fun

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

  Julian Barnes

  Fall, Boys, Yield

  "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

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• I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Order, Nwo

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• Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

  Randy Houser

  Depressing, Nice, Writing

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• Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

  Jay McInerney

  Self, Novelists, World

  "The uses of invention" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

  Nico

  Nice, Mad, Diaries

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• You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

  David Copperfield

  Feel Better, Magic, Kind

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• Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

  Melissa Marr

  Agents, Four, Down And

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• Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

  Rose Tremain

  Real, Research, Surroundings

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• When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Mps, Land, Two

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• The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

  Vasily Grossman

  War, Diversity, Captivity

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• I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

  Mae Jemison

  Dancing, Dancer, Choreography

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• Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

  Frederic Chopin

  Dream, Men, Long

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