Features Quotes - Page 14

• On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

  Rob Zombie

  New Experiences, Matter, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.

  Frank Darabont

  School, Writing, Learning Something New

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always sitting down and talking to people that are doing independent features. It depends on the project and the quotient of the people that are involved. There are a lot of different reasons [to do something], like a particular script that resonates with me, in a particular way. It may not so much even be about the part, but what the script has to say.

  Jimmy Smits

  Independent, Talking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Opposites, Two, Rawness

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• Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Done, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.64, Xist Publishing

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• The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, School, Eye

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• One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

  Ida Tarbell

  Depressing, Business, Hero

  Ida M. Tarbell (2012). “The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version”, p.224, Courier Corporation

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• Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Beauty, Flower, Maturity

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• We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Air, Secret

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• The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Pay, Privilege, Taxes

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• When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quite a surprise how I found myself shooting features. It was like my wildest dreams as a kid collided.

  Roger Deakins

  Dream, Kids, Years

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2015.

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• Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.

  Afia Nathaniel

  Ego, Males, Fantasy

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak baby-making years, and that's just the truth. And those are choices women have to make.

  Laura Ziskin

  Baby, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm drawn to look tough. The arched eyebrows are just there - I don't do them like that. I have strong features, but I wish I could be tougher.

  Eva Mendes

  Strong, Eyebrows, Wish

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

  Patrice Leconte

  Writing, Mirrors, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.

  Chika Anadu

  Years, Two, Paris

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.

  Michael Brandt

  Goal, Today, World

  Source: collider.com

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• We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

  Larry Wall

  People, Annoyed, Trying

  "2nd State of the Onion". www.perl.com. August 25, 1998.

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• The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.

  Jeff Lowe

  Wall, Rocks, Ice

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• Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

  Scott Meyers

  Principles, Schedules, Development

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.

  Bill Gates

  Issues, Choices, Needs

  "Bill Gates: Trustworthy Computing". www.wired.com. January 17, 2002.

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• The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

  Zadie Smith

  Cynical, Marketing, Quirky

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• I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

  Raul Garcia

  Long, Desire, Spain

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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