Scene Quotes - Page 30

• Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Bankers, Thieves, Lucky

  "Preying on the Poor". www.tomdispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

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• The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Two, Waiting, Actors

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• In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Long, Plot

  "Jesse Eisenberg Talks Learning Magic, Reuniting with Woody Harrelson, Why He Signed on to the Project, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Group interview, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

  Paul Engle

  Country, Small Changes, Iowa

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• I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

  Brian Eno

  Roles, Spotlight, Behind The Scenes

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• What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

  Paul Feig

  Purpose, Done, Want

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• I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.

  Tim Ferriss

  Years, Adoption, Investing

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• Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, Political, President

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Artist, Hip Hop

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

  Sally Field

  Thinking, Firsts, Juliet

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• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Firefly, Light

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Character, Reflection

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• What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Creativity, Skills

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• I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

  Jodie Foster

  Intention, Behinds, Seeing

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• I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

  Jodie Foster

  Play, Roles, Lines

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• Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Powerful, Historical, Ambitious

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.197, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

  Lady Gaga

  Jobs, Father, Real

  "Lady Gaga Hooks Up With Polaroid For 'Specialty Projects'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. January 7, 2010.

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• And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

  Jennifer Garner

  Giving, Comedy, Commit

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• Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

  Robin Gibb

  Inspiration, Urban

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

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• The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Dying, Dull, Oxymoron

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

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• A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Zero, Motivation, Laughing

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• You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

  Grimes

  Thinking, Missing, Links

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• Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Regret, Thinking, Mind

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• Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Reading, Self

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

  Conrad Hall

  Art, Eye, Light

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