You'd use recorded effects and then they'd have to come off discs. So we tried to make our own, and we used to have all sorts of things. We used to have roller skates for making train noises over rails and I remember once trying to effect the noise of someone's head being chopped off. I used a cabbage for that, it was very effective.
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something crazy to remember your alive! NEIL OLSSON In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course... GEORGE MARTIN We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO Don't do it, because you have to do it.
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ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in such a compromising posi... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies a... NATALIE PORTMAN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h... ERIC JEROME DICKEY The last owner was a bad experience for this business, so we have tried to put the restaurant back t... JUAN GOMEZ I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD We have a very safe and effective vaccine against a very deadly biologic agent that we know to be in... SUE BAILEY That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... 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SYED SHARUKH Me and my mate used to go across the park, jump on the Met line to get the Tube into Harrow. There w... STEVE EASTERBROOK We used to have to use the senior citizens hall for Christmas concerts. PATTI BYERS We get along off the court, but you have to get used to how everyone plays. We have to adjust as a t... DAVE BLISS We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well,... JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, of... ANDY SERKIS Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn&... AFROJACK I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discover... TOM BAKER So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco... AKIROQ BROST I had no doubts that my team would have pulled it off. It was less than what we were used to scoring... CAROL HIBBERT I tried to milk the lead in the second half and it almost cost us. I wanted us to run at least 45 se... DAN DONAWITZ I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and ... MAKO Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS She saved all of those poems in a scrapbook, ... And when I look at the scrapbook, it brings back so... JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am i... STEVIE SMITH I used to love listening to Jazzy Jeff. JUICY J We've been off to such slow starts, and we tried to make that a point of emphasis to our kids: we ha... DAWN SEILER We don't respond to calls slower, but we have to use more caution when we pull up to the scene. We u... FRAN CAPELLO That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL What we're trying to do is have all of the mass and volume be used for the purpose it is to be used ... ANGELA BELCHER We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce... MO BROOKS So we used to do this thing by Bach that was our own little version of it, and we got it wrong, PAUL MCCARTNEY See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let g... AMY ADAMS I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and... WILLIAM WYLER I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance p... GILLIAN JACOBS Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti... GEORGE MARTIN I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE Our defense used to be our bread and butter and we had to go back to it. We used to run the press al... FREDA CRAFT I was trying to keep calm. Everybody was making noise in the background and I tried not to let it bo... AMANDA SIMMONS I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All I know for sure is that I had missed so many hours, and then this came up, ... Usually you have ... BARBARA ROBERTS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I mean, I could tell that I really had... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed ... RICKY SKAGGS They used their power to try to get it to the crease and jam it. We tried to use the pass and our sp... ALEXEI KOVALEV We have a lot of buildings in Laconia that are over three-stories high and the ladders aren't only u... KEN ERICKSON We were being aggressive and trying to make things happen, and it just didn't work out. We talked ab... DONNA PROCTOR While infusing technology with humanity, we are trying to make sure it's used for good and also ... TIM COOK I think we really used each other to set the pace and worked off each other. It really benefits us t... TRAVIS BOCCHER When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering wh... CHARLES SPURGEON For the last two-and-a-half years we have made every effort to provide 24/7 service, but we have lea... KATY MCKIM I'm not used to being physical in a wheelchair, so I have to get used to that. But other than that, ... JAMES BRADY We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we spee... CARL HONORE We have a lot of international experience, so we are used to hostile crowds and a lot of nationalism... OFORI SARKODIE If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... 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HARRY KANE Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used... ELLIOTT CARTER
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MARTIN Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Keep walking. If I look back I am lost. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream.... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs? GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves? GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shav... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do . GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister. “Pride?” Catelyn snapp... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—” GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.” His chains chinked softly. “I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN