Screens Quotes - Page 34

• 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Years, Icons, America

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• When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.

  Luke Bryan

  Artist, Night, Numbers

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• A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

  Bill Bryson

  World, Newspapers

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• I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Games, Vectors

  "Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry". Interview with Steve Boxer, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Communication, Years, Games

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• I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

  David Byrne

  Video, Used, Concerts

  "David Byrne and Jeremy Deller: Audio Games". Interview with Jeremy Deller, www.blouinartinfo.com. March 17, 2010.

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• I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Finest, Grew Up

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• There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

  John Calvin

  Confidence, Block, Christian Inspirational

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, David Wishart Torrance, A. W. Morrison (1996). “A Harmony of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke”, p.245, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Green Screen was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

  Drew Carey

  Green, Tough, Glad

  "Drew Carey remembers when The Tonight Show really meant something". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Most screen violence is tedious.

  Nick Cave

  Violence, Tedious

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• Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

  Claude Chabrol

  Color, Want, Difficult

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• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  Jackie Chan

  Hero, Wish, Film

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2011

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• Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

  George Clooney

  Heart, Growing, Faint Of Heart

  "George Clooney On Acting, Fame, And Putting Down Your Cellphone Camera". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 9, 2012.

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• The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor.

  George Clooney

  Character, Years, People

  "George Clooney: I'm Now a Character Actor". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 22, 2011.

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• There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.

  George Clooney

  Fall, Hair, Years

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• One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

  Gail Collins

  Memories, College, Feelings

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  Gail Collins

  Song, Writing, Simple

  "Will Journalism Go the Way of Whaling?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

  Joan Collins

  Thinking, Phones, People

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• Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.

  Joan Collins

  Cute, Beautiful, Thinking

  "HELLO! Exclusive: Joan Collins opens the doors to her London home for the first time". www.hellomagazine.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Real, Play, Bars

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• I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

  John Cusack

  Coffee, People, Computer

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• I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.

  Claire Danes

  Beautiful, Jam, Concerned

  "Claire Danes on Those "Claire Danes Cry Face" Memes". www.glamour.com. January 2014.

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• I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.

  Mos Def

  People, Focus, Passionate

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

  Zooey Deschanel

  "Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Personality, Quirky, Boring

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