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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Directors, Cinema

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• The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Plot, Rebound

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• But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

  Sallust

  Song, Fate, Men

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• I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

  Paul Ryan

  Leader, Political, Policy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery.

  Tony Todd

  School, Mean, Winning

  "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.

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• We can make a huge impact. We can be that difference maker just because of our status and because of what we do. I would advise all professional athletes to get involved and to try to help make a difference. If we don't, who else will?

  Davone Bess

  Athlete, Differences, Impact

  "Miami Dolphins receiver Davone Bess on his recent trip to Costa Rica, God’s purpose for his life and The Bess Route Foundation". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.

  John Steinbeck

  Responsibility, Thinking, Awards

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Work Out, Dying, Problem

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

  Dick Cavett

  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• You and I are infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Some of these choices are made consciously, while others are made unconsciously. But the best way to understand and maximize the use of karmic law is to become consciously aware of the choices we make every moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law, Choices, Use

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.30, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.

  Steven Dietz

  Dust, Names, Together

  Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

  Brian Tracy

  Years, Keys, People

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• I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

  Peter Eisenman

  Coffee, Mean, Use

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• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Patterns, Original Ideas

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, May, Made

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• The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Today, Faces

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.119, Routledge

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• All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

  Jean Renoir

  Photography, Artist, Perfect

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• [Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  People, Example, Film

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional makers of typewriters disappeared from the market.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Typewriters, Electric, Traditional

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• I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

  Anthony Minghella

  Stories, Want, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring.

  Jamie Hector

  Opportunity, Energy, Festivals

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

  Brad Feld

  Trying, Venture, Needs

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Art, Dreamer, Tools

  "Fictional character: Elric". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("The Geometry of Shadows", 1994), www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter what kind of fuel-economy standards the government imposes on auto makers. Four dollars a gallon, he added, "is a good start.

  Michael J. Jackson

  Government, Energy, Fuel Economy

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• The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism, or incredulity or infidelity here. No prophecies, no miracles are necessary to prove this celestical communication. This revelation has made it certain that two and one make three, and that one is not three nor can three be one. We can never be so certain of any prophecy, or the fulfilment of any prophecy, or of any miracle, or the design of any miracle, as we are from the revelation of nature, that is, nature's God, that two and two are equal to four.

  John Adams

  Communication, Two, Miracle

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.66

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