Screens Quotes - Page 12

• You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

  Tom Robbins

  God, Prayer, Humorous

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.48, Random House

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• A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Good Man, Action

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.95, Psychology Press

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• The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

  Kim Cattrall

  Europe, Tv Shows, America

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• My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Beautiful, Attention, Appearance

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Long, People, Asking

  "Nancy Gibbs, Time Executive Editor: iPad May Rejuvenate Long-Form Magazine Journalism" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2010.

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• My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

  James Broughton

  White, Pages, Film

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• I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

  Gary Sinise

  Games, Levels, Actors

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• Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Witty, Book, Writing

  "Big ideas". Interview with Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

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• The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Differences, Theatre, Acting

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

  Hugh Mackay

  Children, Worrying Too Much, Trying

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• I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Confession, Interest

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• I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

  Eric Church

  Thinking, Artist, People

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• For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

  Lincoln Child

  Hard Work, Writing, Pages

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• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  Sean Covey

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  "Glenn Beck Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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• From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

  Bill Condon

  Epic, Groups, Ensemble

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• It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

  Devon Aoki

  Difficult, Critics

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

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• I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

  Hayden Christensen

  Class, Wish, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

  Linda Cardellini

  Voice, Faces, Favorites Things

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.

  Robert Cailliau

  Needs, Useless, Lines

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• What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

  Stanley Donen

  Unseen, Looks, Want

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• To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

  Beverly D'Angelo

  Stars, Want, Ends

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

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• I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

  Jonathan Demme

  School, Done, Film

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• Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Christian, Dream, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

  Danai Gurira

  Space, Add, Looks

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