Epic Quotes - Page 12

• I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.

  Colum McCann

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Historical, Bigs, Aspiration

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

  Jacob Latimore

  War, Artist, Bidding

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• Not only do we have the handsomest voice cast out there, along with the very lovely Black Widow, we also have an incredible voice cast, in terms of being able to handle the drama, the fun, the excitement and the promise that Marvel brings to every single one of our projects, which is epic adventure on the human spirit.

  Jeph Loeb

  Fun, Drama, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• It really showed that you can do a major motion picture, from the folks at Marvel, that has multiple characters on an epic scale. On top of that, it also showed us that one of the most important elements is a certain kind of levity.

  Jeph Loeb

  Character, Important, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Poetry Is

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.393, Vintage

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• Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Drama, Balance, Gone

  Source: collider.com

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• We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic, like we were part of some story being told. My mom would have this woman come to our house and take photos of us. She did a photo book of us as well when I was one. I still have it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Mom, Children, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

  Andrew Bird

  Drama, Character, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I love to listen to music, is the range that each piece is able to give you. Like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, 1975, that song is so epic. It goes in so many different places, it's and opera and it is heavy metal, and it's so crazy as it goes every which way. I kind of like films like that.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Song, Queens, Crazy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive the blogosphere. It would drive the projects the kids do in school. So you wouldn't even need programs to try and stimulate curiosity. You wouldn't need programs to try to convince people that science literacy is good. Because they're going to want to participate on this epic adventure that we call space exploration.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Adventure, Kids

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• Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.

  Camille Paglia

  Cutting, Space, Air

  "The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age". Arion Vol. 11, no 3, Spring 2004.

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• Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it.

  Dane Cook

  Nice, Battle, Teeth

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• I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

  Holliday Grainger

  Independent, Opportunity, Different

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

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• Everything going through my head was like, "Just last month or so, I was just flying into L.A. and things were just getting started with recording my album, and then here it is, wow, boom, here I am in a movie." And then with Leonardo DiCaprio! The whole experience was cool and that moment was so epic for me.

  Quindon Tarver

  Here I Am, Flying, Wow

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It's Axelle's [ Carolyn] concept and she's the one who got the ball rolling. She told a few of us about it, and I brought in Epic Pictures and got it financed.

  Mike Mendez

  Rolling, Balls, Concepts

  Source: dailydead.com

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• In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Years, Two

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

  Hershel Shanks

  Book, Biblical, Would Be

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.

  Elie Wiesel

  Yams, Quality, Stories

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was recited in the context of the central sanctuary. That tradition was displaced by the Feast of Enthronement beginning in the Solomonic era.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Thinking, Judging, Sanctuary

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We started out making a film [ The Fourth Phase] about the incredible snow we get at home in Wyoming, the journey soon macroed out into this epic 16,000 mile trip around the North Pacific, taking us to locations in Japan, Alaska, the Kamchatka Peninsula in far-eastern Russia, and back to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

  Travis Rice

  Home, Journey, Wyoming

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Tears, Revolution, Paint

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• I absolute adore epic journeys that require a protagonist to fight for every victory in the hopes of finding triumph.

  Megan Chance

  Fighting, Journey, Victory

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand (and really most of his books); Anne Rice/The Witching Hour; and Pat Conroy/The Prince of Tides. These authors write my favorite kind of book - epic feel, gorgeous prose, unique characters, and a pace that keeps you turning the pages. From them, I learned a lot about characterization, pacing, prose, voice, and originality.

  Megan Chance

  Kings, Book, Character

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams, because of Allen Ginsberg having lived there. And I went to the Great Falls and sat really in the exact same spot as Adam Driver does as Paterson. And I walked around the factory buildings, and I was rereading - I was reading at the time the epic length poem "Paterson" by Williams.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Fall, Reading, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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