Fine Quotes - Page 13

• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Movie, Vision, Trying

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• You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

  Tana French

  Life, Rip, Fall

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• It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

  Caitlin Moran

  Life, Growing Up, Keeping Secrets

  Caitlin Moran (2014). “How to Build a Girl”, p.35, Random House

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• A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

  Donna Leon

  Stories, Care, Facts

  "A Tale Of Two Cities: Author Donna Leon's Venice". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 13, 2012.

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• The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Energy, Lines

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• If you hate the war, that’s fine. But you should still support the troops. They don’t get to pick where they’re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.

  Chris Kyle

  Hate, War, People

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• Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Events, Nervous, Mood

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• Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

  Zebulon Pike

  Justice, Growth, Demand

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.145

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• PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Religion, Progress

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

  Denis Diderot

  Play, Would Be, World

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• Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players makes me feel very much alive.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Competition

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• A fine shiver coursed over my skin. "Seth?" "Yeah?" "You were in my dream." One amber-colored eye opened. "Please tell me we were naked." I rolled my eyes. "You're such a perv." He sighed mournfully as he wiggled closer. "I'll take that as a no." "You'd be correct." Unable to fall back to sleep, I started chewing on my lip. So many worries surfaced at once that my brain spun.

  J. Lynn

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

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• I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Boxing

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• He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight and you still show what you have deep down inside, and I don't think he showed the mettle that he needed to show in that fight in order to beat a guy like Miranda.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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• They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

  Barry Levinson

  Intimidation, Intimidating, Not Sure

  "'Bedford' trimmed to skirt FCC". Associated Press, articles.latimes.com. March 25, 2006.

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• I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

  Tom Cruise

  Truth, Care, Nasty

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• Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

  Willa Cather

  Unique, Voice, Mind

  1936 Not Under Forty, 'Miss Jewett'.

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• Your fingertips across my skin, The palm trees swaying in the wind, Images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, The sweetest sadness in your eyes, Clever trick... I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, So now you're gone and I'm haunted, And I bet you are just fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?..

  A Fine Frenzy

  Morning, Clever, Ocean

  "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.

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• I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Lines, Littles, Too Much

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• My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

  Judy Garland

  Play, Numbers, People

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• Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

  Edward de Bono

  Two, Suits You, Perception

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• It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

  Moliere

  Fine Words, Alive, Good Food

  'Les femmes savantes' (1672) act 2, sc. 7

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• Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

  Carl Jung

  Imagination, Ideals, Normality

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• When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Hero, Mean

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