Preserves Quotes - Page 4

• It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.

  Colin Firth

  Girl, Sex, Men

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Book, Heart, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.

  Adria Petty

  Artist, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

  Hank Stuever

  Sports, Pbs, Cooking

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Helping, Innocence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

  Sam Keen

  Air, Tree, Owl

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Moving, Writing, Want

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

  David McCullough

  Rights, Liberty, Virtue

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Book, Medicine, Drug

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

  Fay Weldon

  Past, Mind, Energy

  Fay Weldon (2012). “The President’s Child”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  War, Opportunity, Office

  "Political Observations" by James Madison, founders.archives.gov. April 20, 1795.

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• We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

  John C. Calhoun

  Loss, Thinking, Years

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• Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

  Pope Gregory I

  Heart, Virtue, Obedience

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• Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Adequacy, Establishment

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• Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mother, Dream, Struggle

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• A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Common Sense, Novelists, Belief

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• My service solidified my respect for our freedom, and the struggle to preserve it. I know the cost of obtaining freedom, keeping it and the value of it.

  Brad Wenstrup

  Struggle, Cost, Obtaining

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• Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Integrity, Generations, Half

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Men, People

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• Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Technology, Practice

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• Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.

  Tim Wu

  Believe, Exercise, Liberty

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.223, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.

  Owen D. Young

  Years, Two, Trying

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• Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

  Franz Kafka

  Ability

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• Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.

  Cotton Mather

  Reading, Soul, Cups

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