Epic Quotes - Page 20

• I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Sacrifice, Discovery

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.130, Penguin

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• I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

  William Monahan

  Stars, War, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over the past few years have gotten older and older. And I thought, You know, before it's too late, I want to play a sexy, tough young gal again. And I always wanted to do a Biblical epic. So, I'll play a beautiful young widow who saves her people from the Assyrians.

  Charles Busch

  Beautiful, Sexy, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

  Edward M. Lerner

  Wander, Interstellar

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Art, Criticism

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Journey, Eight

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• I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Spring 1940

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• Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Country, Song

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• I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Drama, Thinking, Greek

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• Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

  Roger Ebert

  Credit, Iliad, Should

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Need A Six In Pressure Situation? Call MS DHONI.

  Rameez Raja

  Ms Dhoni, Needs, Pressure

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• Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy and the audience screamed behind you'' as tackles hurtled in like boulders crashing down a mountain-side. Such was the epic drama that gripped the Emirates yesterday. A derby crammed with sound, fury and significance ended with everyone grasping for breath, with Arsenal regaining the high ground of the Premier League... This was the Premier League at its raw, mistake-filled, mesmerising best. Utterly compelling.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Mistake

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• ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Character, Fantasy, Genre

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• My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the protagonist of an epic novel, with the outcome predetermined and chapter after chapter of edifying, traumatic, and exhilarating events to be suffered through. Since the end is known in advance, one must try to experience as much as possible in the brief time allotted. Writing is a way of ensuring that you pay enough attention along the way to understand what you see.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Writing, College, Years

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• It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Sunset, Fusion, Nuclear

  "Board Forum: How Grand a Narrative?". 1999.

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• For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Distance, Shining, Orbit

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• Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

  Joe Dante

  Technology, Imagination, Together

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• My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

  James Fenton

  Narrative, Heroic, Lost

  "An Introduction to English Poetry". Book by James Fenton, 2002.

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• Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex, Love Is, Ridiculous

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.124, Ballantine Books

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• This epic masterpiece tells the world changing story of Jesus and inspires us to love and live for others just as He did.

  Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

  Jesus, Inspire, Live For Others

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