Lines Quotes - Page 10

• When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Judging, Achievement

  Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.265, Univ of California Press

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• I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.

  Evan Glodell

  Running, Couple, Ambition

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

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• My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

  Mamie Gummer

  Virginia, Two, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

  Greta Gerwig

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

  Greta Gerwig

  Block, School, College

  "Greta Gerwig on Damsels In Distress and tap-dancing into a role". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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• When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

  Jeff Gordon

  Winning, Guy, Riding

  "Daytona Duel: Race two winner's press conference". www.motorsport.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Thinking, Impact, Issues

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• I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

  Michael Gambon

  Writing

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

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• I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.

  Ben Jonson

  Writing, Player, Answers

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

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• I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Color, Important, Used

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• Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

  Richard Armitage

  Iran, Iraq, Population

  "Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2003.

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• I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

  Jerry Buss

  White, Chocolate, Milk

  "Jerry Buss, Lakers Owner and Innovator, Dies at 80" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2013.

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• There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

  Michael Emerson

  Block, Roles, May

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!

  Greg Evigan

  People, Doubt, Fans

  "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.

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• Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Years, Feel Good, Age

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• I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

  Bruce Feiler

  Skeletons, Want, Closets

  "How Easter and Passover Can Make Your Family Happier" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness that assail one. It is as though the words were not only indelible but that they spread out like dye in water and color everything around them. A strange and mystic business, writing.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Writing, Color

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.12, Penguin

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• Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

  Bob Dylan

  Riding, Fixing, Trouble

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• I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Writing, Hype, White

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• I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Pimples, Scar

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• Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Orange, Rainbow

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

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• I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

  Johnny Cash

  Low Self Esteem, Fool, Walks

  Johnny Cash (2004). “Johnny Cash, the Songs”

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• I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

  Andrew Bird

  Believe, Writing, Kind

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• You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

  Lisa Loeb

  Art, Media, Stories

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