Screens Quotes - Page 39

• Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Nature, Glory

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• And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

  Thomas Keneally

  Writing, Mind, Trying

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• DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

  Alexa Chung

  Song, Fun, Phones

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• Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

  Leonard Maltin

  Eye, Hitting, Documentaries

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• Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.

  Albert Borgmann

  Wall, Doors, Television

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• Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Giving, Needs, Credit

  "The Moguls". Book by Norman J. Zierold, 1969.

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• I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.

  Kevin Rose

  Care, I Don't Care, Don't Care

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• I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.

  Carole Landis

  Heartbroken, Mother, Home

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• That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

  Rory Bremner

  Media, Ideas, Directors

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• If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.

  Christine Lagarde

  Running, Nice, Issues

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• Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

  Pico Iyer

  Angel, Thinking, Cities

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.84, Vintage

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• It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

  Bernhard Langer

  Golf, Captains, Cups

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• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Real, Book, People

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• I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

  Melonie Diaz

  Strong, Bread, Female

  "Melonie Diaz, ‘Fruitvale Station’ Star, On Her Breakout Role & Why She Does Indie Films". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Hate, Thinking, Play

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

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• On some level acting is the art of pretend and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

  Stephen Lang

  Art, Imagination, Acting

  "Daddy’s Home! Stephen Lang On Playing Mary Shannon’s Long Gone Father On In Plain Sight!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

  Allen Covert

  Ties, Long, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Allen Covert Gets Lost in the Strange Wilderness!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 12, 2007.

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• We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Winning, Political

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• Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.

  Stephan Pastis

  Writing, Seven Months, Schedules

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• If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

  Meg Cabot

  Letting Go, Writing, Needs

  "Exclusive Meg Cabot Interview!". Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.421, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, Reading, Talking

  "Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Self Esteem, Men, Feelings

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• I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

  Charlaine Harris

  Writing, Television, Knows

  "Behind 'True Blood': Charlaine Harris discusses her Sookie Stackhouse series". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.

  Keith Sweat

  Fall, Long, Enough

  FaceBook post by Keith Sweat from Dec 20, 2013

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