Screens Quotes - Page 36

• I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

  Helen Hayes

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

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• I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

  Amber Heard

  Fighting, Share, Has Beens

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• Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Technology, Years

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• To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Depressing, Laughter, Sight

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nursing, Creative, Sitting

  "A lack of elegy" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2006.

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• I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Cinema, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great.

  Scott Ian

  Book, Walking Dead, Zombie

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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Dumb, Use

  "Walter Isaacson: Bill Gates Was 'Conventionally Smarter' Than Steve Jobs". Walter Isaacson's speech at the event hosted by PCMag.com in New York City, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

  Molly Ivins

  War, Female, Profile

  "He Loves Us Not" by Molly Ivins, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

  Alison Jackson

  Real, War, Nice

  "Alison Jackson On Obama, Assange And Why 'Reality' Doesn't Really Matter". Interview with Sam Parker, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 26, 2012.

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• My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.

  Janet Jackson

  Crush, Kissing, First Kiss

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• Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

  William James

  Lying, Special, Different

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.349, Library of America

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• My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

  Penn Jillette

  Looks, Way, Computer

  "Sound Bytes; Penn Jillette Finds Magic In His Personal Computer". Interview with Peter H. Lewis, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 1993.

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• But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Successful, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Best Job, Buttons

  "Fortune" Magazine, January 24, 2000.

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• When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Silence, Despair

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Determination, Brother

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• I don't kiss on screen. Period.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Kissing, Periods

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Ordinary, May, Glamorous

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• Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

  Ben Kingsley

  Years, Theatre, Actors

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• The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Magic, Emotion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

  Akshay Kumar

  Guy, Athletic, Doe

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• I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

  Annie Ilonzeh

  World, Want, Performances

  "Annie Ilonzeh Doesn’t See Color But Is Happy To Be Charlie’s First Black Angel" by Rebecca Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Mother, Father, Remember

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• I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

  Denis Leary

  Writing, Long, Acting

  "Q&A with 'Rescue Me' writer-actor Denis Leary". Interview with Stuart Levine, variety.com. September 7, 2011.

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