Screens Quotes - Page 16

• Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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• Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Understanding, Over You

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.166, Penguin

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• Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Guy, Atheism

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• If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Fire, Nba

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• A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Looks, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Sexy, Art

  "Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Press conference, collider.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

  Antonio Banderas

  Ideas, Never Change, Wanted

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Stories, Want, Way

  "Samuel L. Jackson Talks Big Game, Playing the President, the Blob Remake, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

  Chad Harbach

  Notebook, Running, Block

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• I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

  Frank Welker

  Able, Sound, Peculiar

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

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• The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.

  Paul Simon

  Degrees, Preference

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• I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

  Jamie Bamber

  Thinking, Different Nationalities, People

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• ... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

  Adrienne Rich

  Growing Up, Real, Flames

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• I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Voice, Want

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• In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.

  Peyton Manning

  Nfl, League, Sound

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• Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.

  Virgilia Peterson

  People, Ruts, Protection

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

  James Wolk

  Dad, Watches, Entertainment

  "James Wolk Interview LONE STAR". Promo Interview, collider.com. September 15, 2010.

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• I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.

  Thomas Ian Griffith

  Thinking, Doe, Actors

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

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• People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

  Melanie Griffith

  Falling In Love, Character, Eight

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• I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

  Sophie Turner

  Insecure, Parent, Acting

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• I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Eye, Hard Times, People

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• Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

  Hoda Kotb

  Should Have, People, Buttons

  Hoda Kotb (2010). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Mother, Brother

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

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• There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Believe, Chemistry, I Don't Believe You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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