Shows Quotes - Page 34

• In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Reality, Opposites

  "Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness" by Eli Siegel, 1969.

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• After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

  Matthew Ashford

  Character, Careers, Going Away

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• L.A. is not a town that supports a lot of theater. Most of the shows don't get through a week or two and then, the audience kind of disappears.

  Matthew Ashford

  Two, Support, Towns

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• I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.

  Gabriel Macht

  Believe, Should, Shots

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

  Alex Kozinski

  Believe, Murder, Forfeit

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• A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness of global foreign aid.

  Jerry Sabloff

  Book, Thinking, Impact

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• The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the population may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end Biston Betularia.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Dark, Light, Survival

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• Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence the character’s worldview, attitudes, decisions, and actions.

  Larry Brooks

  Attitude, Writing, Character

  Larry Brooks (2011). “Story Engineering”, p.89, Writer's Digest Books

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• And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

  Jane Badler

  Might, Wonder, Easier

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• Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Ocean, Book, Islands

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• Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

  Rick Allen

  Thinking, Practice, People

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• I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

  Luc Besson

  Kids, Smoking, Want

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.

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• I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

  Luc Besson

  Able, Facts, Film

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.

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• Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

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• It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

  Duane Chapman

  Father, Role Models, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

  Michael Enzi

  President, Paper, Pages

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• It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Real, Dark, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

  Andy Milonakis

  Stuff, Tone, Bizarre

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• One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Years, Two, People

  "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I'm something totally different. There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

  Samantha Mumba

  Attitude, Artist, Blue

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• Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Writing, America, Should

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• Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

  Matt Stone

  People, Done, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

  Matt Stone

  Important, World, Want

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

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• The last few years on ‘South Park’ we have done some of the riskiest things we have ever done, knowing it could kill the show, but we also know that’s what we have to do.

  Matt Stone

  Years, Knowing, Done

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• I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

  Don Young

  Stress, War, College

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