Periods Quotes - Page 32

• There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

  Park Chan-wook

  Humble, Listening, Instruments

  "On my radar: Park Chan-wook" by Corinne Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• I've been a professional for I think 13, 14 years. It's not easy hitting balls every day and staying really motivated throughout the whole period. It's normal [that] you're going to have ups and downs. But I found my way again. And I love the sport. I love competing. I love battling. I love being out there and playing in front of crowds. This is what I've been doing since I was a child. There's nothing else that I want to do.

  Jelena Jankovic

  Sports, Children, Love Is

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• Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Focus, Imperfection, Enemy

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• What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, Long, Waiting

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• Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.

  Doug Benson

  Long, People, Smoking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and I feel a responsibility to do it - for instance, in this situation, where I'm touring specifically for this period of time. But most writers are not public people. There are a few writers out there who really enjoy it and are good at it, and can both work and do that at the same time, but I'm not one of those people.

  Alice Sebold

  Responsibility, Long, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't like, speaking about the movie, if I may say couple more words, I like a movie that doesn't drag too much, unless it's purpose. I like a movie with an action with a certain pace. If it's too monotone, I hate it. No, I don't hate it, I just don't like it, period.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Couple, Hate, Purpose

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

  Larry Clark

  Moving, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  People, Childhood, Imagine

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  War, Book, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Moving, Views, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

  Ne-Yo

  Artist, Thinking, Appreciated

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a middle, and hopefully an end.I hate "fly on the wall." It infers that I don't relate to the people we're with and that I don't get affected by events. I like it when people talk to me. I never say things like "Don't look at the camera" - how bossy!

  Kim Longinotto

  Wall, Hate, People

  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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• Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

  Isabel Allende

  Mind, Youth, States

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• In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Average, Organization

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• It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

  Barbara Steele

  Beautiful, Dark, Italian

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• Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.

  Michael Tsarion

  Father, War, Egypt

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• I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lying, Opportunity, Two

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1960). “Selected letters”

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• Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

  George Ayittey

  Gone, Orthodoxy, Faults

  "Border Jumpers". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2005.

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• I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.

  Terrell Owens

  Agency, Gone, Cases

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• You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

  Terrell Owens

  Fields, Faces, Problem

  Interview with Victor Kelly, ca.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Thinking, Facts, Reason

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• Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

  Douglas Adams

  Time Travel

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• In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time.
  Sometimes the student who is least articulate about expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing
  and processing them most deeply. This applies as well to our own private learning of our art form; the
  areas in which we feel most stuck and most incompetent may be our richest gold mine of developing
  material. The use of silence in teaching then becomes very powerful.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Powerful, Teaching

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