Commentary Quotes - Page 5

• You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Hurt, Maturity, Validation

  Interview with Charlie Day, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.

  Daniel Handler

  Stars, Revenge, Dvds

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.

  Max Walker

  Character, Night, Numbers

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

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• I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

  John Mayall

  Counter Culture, Laughing, News

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• The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Christian, Dream

  "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Dvds, Tools, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Thinking, Interesting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Cutting

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• Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal

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• I've wanted to make movies for so long. I learned most of what I know from director commentaries and behind the scenes featurettes and criterions.

  Todd Strauss-Schulson

  Long, Directors, Behind The Scenes

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 5, 2017.

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• It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

  Sophie Tucker

  Berlin, Broadcasting, Company

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• It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.

  J. J. Abrams

  Crazy, Writing, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have to pay someone to tell them their troubles.

  Jon Winokur

  People, Pay, Trouble

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• Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Art, Reality, Self

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• Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

  Elie Wiesel

  Attitude, Touch Me, Rabbi

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If I do, I say so. That's the only way out of that. If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words "I don't know." I mean, there are certain basic principles, like the dignity of the individual and the individual's responsibility, and certain basic economic principles, like how when something costs less, more of it will be consumed... There are certain things that I feel pretty confident about.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mean, Responsibility, Magic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

  John Donne

  Example, Scripture, Good Examples

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• I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We can be bold to call ourselves Christians and bear the stamp of his character and reputation. When people find out the you are a Christian, they should already have an idea of who you are and what you are like simply because you bear such a precious name.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Character, Mean

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• Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Criticism, Scarcity, Swarms

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1093, 谷月社

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• The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Firsts, Provoking

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.4, Рипол Классик

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• I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Drawing, News, Magazines

  "Carlos Fuentes obituary" by Nick Caistor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  Jack Dee

  Reading, Light, Torches

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• I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

  Aloe Blacc

  Opportunity, Past, Political

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

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• Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

  Bob Costas

  Humorous, Should Have, Quirky

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• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  Gavyn Davies

  Powerful, Kingdoms, Today

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