Periods Quotes - Page 35

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

Martha Beck

Essence, Needs, Matter

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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

Larry Dixon

Team, Thinking, People

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We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

Julie Bishop

Entering, Care, Transformation

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Hugh Grant

Actors, Reason, Certain

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Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

Graham Greene

Love, Rain, Men

Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.

John Carpenter

Hands, Superhero, Gone

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So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Jim Bolger

Country, Thinking, Unusual

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For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

Mary Garden

Block, Years, Long

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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

Kate Atkinson

Past, Thinking, Creating

"Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson". www.independent.co.uk. August 06, 2000.

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From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

Andrew Davies

Drama, Moving, Thinking

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One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

Andrew Davies

Clothes, Necks, Adaptation

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In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

George P. Baker

Drama, Giving, Perfect

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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

George P. Baker

Years, Play, Tragedy

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Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

Thinking, Light, Looks

"Lanterns and Lances". Book by James Thurber. Foreword, 1961.

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Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.

Terry Jones

Thinking, Order, Voice

"The Middle Ages of reason" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

Paul Johnson

Eye, Views, History

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Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

Vladimir Nabokov

Writing, Men, Knights

1941 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, ch.1.

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To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.

Wim Wenders

Fun, Italian, Littles

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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I've always played music and I've always been in bands and there have been periods in my life where the music has taken a much more front row seat than any acting. For a big period of time the acting work was really a way of raising money to fund my music. And then that all sort of changed around and that's fine.

Jim Sturgess

Taken, Acting, Band

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.

Michael Haneke

Simple, People, Feudal System

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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Of course there are many films about the period of Fascism itself but I don't know of any about that period beforehand. But it wasn't that specific fact that they weren't there that got me to think about this in the first place. It's not what led to the basic idea for the film, although it became apparent when I began to think about it.

Michael Haneke

Thinking, Ideas, Firsts

Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

Mike Myers

Laid Back, Different, Toronto

Source: www.movieweb.com

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I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.

Mandy Moore

Hands, Trying, Roles

Source: www.movieweb.com

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I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.

Eli Roth

Witch Trials, Years, Church

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

Tom Hardy

Motivation, Eggs, White

"Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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