Giants Quotes - Page 33

• 'Ten Year' was probably - I might say 'Ten Year' was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from 'Moneyball' in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.

  Chris Pratt

  Independent, Years, Different

  "The Very Busy Chris Pratt on Preparing for Moneyball, Goofing in What's Your Number? and Ten Year". Interview with Christopher Rosen, movieline.com. August 29, 2011.

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• It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Superhero, Actors

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• People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Art, Mean, People

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• Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

  Jerry Saltz

  Hate, Events, Groups

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• Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Aesthetic, Opening

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• Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Mean, Past

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• The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, White

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• Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

  Jerry Saltz

  Wall, Cutting, Creating

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• And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.

  Jane Seymour

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• I'm surfing the giant life wave.

  William Shatner

  Surfing, Wave

  "Q&A: William Shatner wins Governor General's Award". Interview with Melissa Leong, nationalpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

  James Surowiecki

  Moving, Technology, Growing

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• I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Stars, Father, Expression

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

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• You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

  Patrick Swayze

  Lions, Knows

  "FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; Into Africa: Patrick Swayze's 19th-Century Eco Trip" by Jody Alesandro, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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• Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Class, Meat

  "Wall Street's Naked Swindle". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.

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• If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

  Serj Tankian

  Zero, Competition, Regulation

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

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• Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

  Josh Turner

  Fans, Gentle

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• I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

  Shania Twain

  Air, Breathing, Mountain

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

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• Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Thinking, Opposites

  "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". Interview with Lev Grossman, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

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• When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

  Shaun White

  Wall, Thinking, Feet

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• Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  A. N. Wilson

  Dragons, Monsters, Stories

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• We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a grove of trees was transformed into a spiritual giant.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Spiritual, Jesus, Father

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• We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Rights, Racism

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.

  Michael Ende

  Doors, House, Caves

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• All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.

  Jack Kirby

  Dream, Children, Stress

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