Atmosphere Quotes - Page 26

• In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Friendly, Helping, Comedy

  "Chris O'Dowd: 'People try to set me up with their sisters'". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2011.

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• We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Should, Heavenly

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50”, p.37, Bridge Logos Inc

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• From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

  Jimmy Reid

  Book, People, Height

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.

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• I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

  Sonny Rollins

  Clubs, Jazz, Ever After

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• We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Book, Parent, Liberty

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Ocean, Weather, Air

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• I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

  David Yates

  Risk, Actors, Safe

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

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• I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Home, Different, Towns

  "Kenneth Lonergan Discusses 'Margaret'". Interview with Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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• I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

  Joe Wright

  Jobs, Creating, People

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• A Universalist, your heart cannot but dilate, and your affections widen, until the divine expansion, like the ambient atmosphere, embraces every form, which is acted upon by an immortal spirit.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Heart, Expansion, Spirit

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• The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it’s necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of others regardless of whether those others belong to a certain group of people or to a religion or a nation.

  James Morcan

  War, People, Hatred

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• I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

  Eve Ensler

  Reality, Thinking, Class

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Teaching, Reading

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• However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.

  Jules Verne

  Thinking, Sea, Feet

  Jules Verne (2013). “The Collected Works Of Jules Verne”, p.809, Simon and Schuster

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• A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.

  Ken Adam

  Reality, Shooting, Location

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• In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

  Will Cotton

  Expectations, Gallery, Elitist

  "Cotton Candy Man". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Museums, Entering

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• We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

  William Winwood Reade

  Drama, Animal, Two

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

  Andrew Lau

  Stars, Uncles, School

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2007.

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• Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  World, Inbreeding, Influence

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• Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.

  Kohei Uchimura

  Years, Giving, Advice

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• The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adversity, Artist, Able

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Dream, Food, Years

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.393, Lulu.com

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• Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin to release billions of tonnes of methane locked up in the soils, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The World Meteorological Organisation recently reported the largest annual rise of methane levels in the atmosphere for a decade.

  David Adam

  Giving Up, Believe, Years

  "Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Rain, Ozone, Light

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