Black And White Quotes - Page 20

• where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.

  Isabel Burton

  Pain, Book, Giving

  Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.3

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• There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.

  Alec Sulkin

  Horse, Gay, Dancer

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

  Nikki Sixx

  Honesty, Color, Cracks

  Source: lavidaleica.com

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• Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and white flickering images to fully immersive 3D color high-definition. You don't even know where the real world starts and the fake world begins. And yet, none of that's going to matter unless the story and the emotions that they allow us to become invested in are something that we can recognize. Pixar is able to do this in ways that almost defies speculation.

  Tom Hanks

  Real, Color, Fake World

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• Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

  Tom Cruise

  Games, Chess Game, Patterns

  "New Again: Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

  Steven Tyler

  Country, Book, Issues

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• Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Movie, Color, Film

  Penelope Gilliatt (1980). “Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections”, Coward McCann

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• Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Country, Real, Mean

  Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.115, Penguin

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• Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

  James Hollis

  Journey, Today, Culture

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• My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

  Toni Braxton

  Guy, Littles, Married

  "Toni Braxton Talks Exes, Sibling Rivalry, Dating White Men, and More". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

  Jeff Cooper

  Colonialism, Reputation, Modern

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• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Thinking, Choices

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• Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

  Phillip Noyce

  Years, Cities, East

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• Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Slave Labor, Competition

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• Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.

  John Boorman

  Color, Choices, Television

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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• The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.

  John Boorman

  World, Way, Resistance

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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• I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

  Hedi Slimane

  Teenage, Thinking, Genre Is

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.

  Romany Malco

  Mean, Past, People

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

  Joe Berlinger

  Sound, Television, Shade

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

  Alison Mosshart

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

  Joel Sternfeld

  World, Strange, Photograph

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• There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?

  Sasha Grey

  People, Sexuality, Aspect

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• I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

  Damian Loeb

  Color, People, Tvs

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• Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

  Adrian Tomine

  Years, Issues, Vacuums

  Source: www.believermag.com

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