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• In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Beautiful, Stars, Moon

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• When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation -
  like a veiled girl. Generally the eye and the imagination are more readily drawn by nebulous distance than by what is perfectly plain for all to see

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Girl, Distance, Eye

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• A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

  Chance the Rapper

  Tape, Golden, Eras

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• Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

  Martin Scorsese

  School, Lessons, Shots

  "5 Great Bits of Advice From Martin Scorsese's NYU Commencement Speech" by Gwynne Watkins, www.yahoo.com. September 16, 2014.

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• The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Character, Fighting, Needs

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

  Michael Shurtleff

  Actors, Should, Asks

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great coming of age tale, compelling character, and a fast-paced plot. If his first book is any indication of things to come, then all fantasy readers should rejoice as a new master storyteller has hit the scene.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Song, Book, Character

  Interview with Fran Friel, amazingstoriesmag.com. March 22, 2013.

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• He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

  James Joyce

  Beautiful, Heart, Beautiful Life

  James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

  Faith Ford

  Mind Your Own Business, Comedy, Brad

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• Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, No Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

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• Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Creative, Intuition

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.244, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

  John Wayne

  Weather, Littles, Oscars

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• On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Moving, Steadfast

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.197

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• As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

  E. B. White

  Hope, Time, Women

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.126, Cornell University Press

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• A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Prayer

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

  Greg Kinnear

  Funny, Dog, Eye

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• My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

  Satyajit Ray

  Light, Shadow, Actors

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Giving Up, Giving, Instance

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• There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.

  B. H. Roberts

  Religious, Military, Believe

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• Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

  Silas House

  Forever, Ink, Whole

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• When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

  Illeana Douglas

  Silly, Home, Collapse

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 22, 2003.

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• What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

  Robert Wagner

  Guy, Arriving, Actors

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• Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

  Dick Armey

  Mistake, Party, Player

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• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  Ira Glass

  Character, Emotional, Thinking

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

  Phil Silvers

  Always Trying, Littles, Stealing

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