Black And White Quotes - Page 8

• All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

  Joe Johnston

  Real, Character, Roles

  "'Captain America' director: 'This movie is going to surprise some people'". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.

  Criss Jami

  Hurt, Humility, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.26, Criss Jami

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• The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Wikipedia, Definitions, White

  "'Modern Family' star Jesse Tyler Ferguson is engaged" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and Marc Malkin, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.

  Jordi Molla

  Mother, Lonely, Morning

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• There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  White, Simplicity, Black

  "Interview: Joseph Gordon-Levitt on 'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories'". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 5, 2011.

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• I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.

  Ellie Goulding

  Cutting, Hair, Looks

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

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• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Winning, Levels

  "Q&A: The 'Mighty' Fine Carla Gugino And David Boreanaz". Interview With Jenni Miller, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Fabric, World

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• Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

  Misty Copeland

  Dancer, Becoming, Stage

  Source: collider.com

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• Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Voice, Lines, Consciousness

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• Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.

  Jasper Fforde

  Life And Death, Decision, Emotion

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

  David Sheff

  World, Contradiction, Gray

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  "I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Two, People

  "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Book by Sherman Alexie, September 12, 2007.

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• I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

  Janelle Monae

  Shoes, Classic, Made

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• It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!

  Alexander Payne

  New York, Artist, Why Not

  "Alexander Payne Says Bryan Cranston Not Right for Upcoming Project 'Nebraska'" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Relationship, Passion

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Aug 24, 2010

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• I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

  Justin Timberlake

  Book, Self, Age

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• I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

  Danila Kozlovsky

  Hands, Different, Life Is

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• I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Men, Long

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• We don't live in a world that's black and white.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  White, Black, World

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

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• Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

  Loni Anderson

  Marijuana, Smoking, Looks

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• I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.

  Kim Hunter

  Heart, Eye, Emotional

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• It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

  John Waters

  Gay, Animal, Aunt

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• In school tests, there's only one answer for each question, and you might get zero or half points if you're wrong. But in the real world, things aren't so black and white, so think about things on your own and express them in words or pictures. That's how you communicate with people. That's so important.

  Hideaki Anno

  Zero, Real, School

  "Buried Treasure". www.animenewsnetwork.com. May 3, 2007.

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  It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

  George Lopez

  Ethnicity, People, Together

  "George Lopez enters the talk show wars". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2009.

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