If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
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ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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MARCEL CARNE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television any...
PATRICK WHITESELL Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Frame everything in the same color frame. A grouping of things with similar frames has a sophisticat...
LAURA MCDOWELL The board felt that with the two connections being virtually identical, they ought to have the same ...
DAVE VACLAVIK If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content,...
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DANNY BOYLE Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman...
SATCHEL PAIGE I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted ...
LARS VON TRIER . . . I do not see how it is possible that creatures in such different positions and with such diffe...
WILLIAM JAMES Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories
SANA KRASIKOV A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, a...
JOHANNES PETER MüLLER You really won't know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you're both playin...
SHANNON L. ALDER [This week Marcel listened to the just-rediscovered tapes of a 1957 session of the Thelonious Monk q...
MARY STUART No two wars are identical.
KATE ADIE There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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MARK RYLANCE Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, ...
RIDLEY SCOTT Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfrien...
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DOUGLAS HOEY Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and t...
RICHARD PERLE We recorded our demo in November and it should be out in a few weeks. You can listen to rough versio...
ETHAN HAMPTON My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy ...
VIN DIESEL It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vice...
THOMAS HARDY There should be a televised debate between the two of us. What do you say, Rick?
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SATCHEL PAIGE If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because...
JUSTIN CRONIN If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job th...
HARVEY MACKAY If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in be...
TEMPLE GRANDIN Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or ...
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SONAM KAPOOR Maybe I should do something totally different and film a cracking porn with Tim [Burton],
JOHNNY DEPP If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated pr...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for tho...
GEORGE STEVENS If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
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GARY F EVANS... A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn...
BEN KATCHOR A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
DAVID MAMET The site will have two medical office-type uses. Basically, they'll be identical buildings.
DON JOHNSON Basically the house is identical, the same beam sizes, the same redwood siding.
ART DUNLOP The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and nec...
OLIVER ELLSWORTH The author is writing about the people within the Mercury series. They are two different perspective...
CRAIG STACEY Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY They'll tell you who they think you should be
they'll even try to manipulate you into believin...
NIKKI ROWE 7 Rules to a Happy Life:
1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT If you wanted to reassemble Elijah's afternoon, you could probably do it by stringing together all t...
DAVID LEVITHAN Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I ...
BIBLE If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local ...
WILLIAM KIRCHER Be the Best YOU you can BE because only YOU can do that.
LORRIN L. LEE Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional m...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. If you watch a six-minute film, and you're really watching it, it can be a profound experience. But ...
MATTI LESHEM A treasure beyond price for fans of both the classic Hammett novel and the three (that's right, thre...
KENNETH TURAN [Their] uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can...
HELEN LAWRENSON But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of ...
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ALEXANDRE AJA I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and...
CHRIS GIBSON Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocal...
EDDIE PALMIERI If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.
ANI DIFRANCO Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices...
RAY BRADBURY If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Fin...
GEORGE KAISER Yo soy carne muerta.
KIERSTEN WHITE Women saying, 'I'm not a feminist' is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be pai...
LENA DUNHAM If you want your dreams to work out for you, you must work with them. Pay the price and have the pac...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
ROLAND JOFFE I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at...
ALLAN HAMILTON If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, le...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN If a salesperson shows you a gee-whiz but complicated financial product, you can be sure of two thin...
JANE BRYANT QUINN There were two different contractors, two different projects and they bid different prices to do the...
DAVE VACLAVIK Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed wit...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you shou...
ALFONSO CUARON Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recogni...
WALTER MURCH Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them wi...
JOHN W. DAWSON Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a
hopeful view of the prospects of your ow...
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you ...
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LEWIS BLACK There are sins of omission and sins of commission, my friend. I've dealt with mine and i've forgiven...
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DAVE ATTELL What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish, ... You know what you s...
DAVE ATTELL Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.
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GABRIEL MARCEL Metaphysics is a science.
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MARCEL PROUST It's good to shut up sometimes.
MARCEL MARCEAU The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUST Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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MARCEL PROUST Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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MARCEL PROUST My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUST To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU That translucent alabaster of our memories.
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MARCEL PROUST We become moral when we are unhappy.
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MARCEL PROUST I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUST Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
MARCEL PROUST A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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MARCEL PROUST We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
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MARCEL PROUST All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUST Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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MARCEL MASSE The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourse...
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MARCEL PROUST A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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MARCEL PROUST Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit per...
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MARCEL PROUST Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
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MARCEL DUCHAMP Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
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MARCEL PROUST We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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MARCEL PROUST The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
MARCEL MARCEAU Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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MARCEL PROUST We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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MARCEL PROUST Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
MARCEL PROUST Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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MARCEL PROUST Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP I try not to censor myself at all.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional...
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MARCEL DUCHAMP And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.
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MARCEL PROUST One of a hostess's duties is to act as procuress.
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MARCEL PROUST The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
MARCEL PROUST Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...
MARCEL PROUST Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
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MARCEL PROUST The only paradise is paradise lost
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MARCEL PROUST No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others ...
MARCEL PROUST A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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MARCEL PROUST The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
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MARCEL PROUST Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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MARCEL PROUST A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
MARCEL PAGNOL Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can b...
MARCEL FALK There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than...
MARCEL DUCHAMP It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ou...
MARCEL PROUST One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb
MARCEL PAGNOL Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.
MARCEL PAGNOL In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.
MARCEL DUCHAMP The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree th...
MARCEL DUCHAMP What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no rel...
MARCEL PROUST A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm...
MARCEL DUCHAMP People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake t...
MARCEL PROUST Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to suc...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...
MARCEL MARCEAU In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground...
MARCEL PROUST What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
MARCEL MARCEAU