A Quotes
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“And as a Chinese mother, Vera has had years of practice at harboring unrealistic expectations.”
Source: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
“And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.”
“And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the other parts. Of course, when the shot finishes, you remember that you have Robert De Niro in front of you. But when you're shooting, you just see a character in front of you, and an actor, and you try to search for very truthful moments. That's what obsesses you.”
“And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.”
“And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.”
“And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get along with. It was a perfect match [with Sam Rockwell]; I am so thrilled I got to work with him. He is a really nice and incredible guy.”
“And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.”
Source: Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life
“And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.”
“And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.”
“And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.”
“And as a queen of avoidance, she would rather not know. Sneaking around for the rest of her life sounded so much easier.”
Source: Secretly Yours
“And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.”
“And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.”
“And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.”
“And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.”
“And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.”
Source: The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
“And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.”
“And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.”
“And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically oriented, positivistic, leftist creative works. And I found it incredibly useful. And I found it something that I've learned from and gained from.”
“And as all of us know, it does not matter if the ending has been predetermined, or the demise inevitable, or otherwise on time, or even long overdue. For those who love or even simply fondly know a life; for those who have touched one existence with their own, helping to mould it as it does the same to them, goodbye will always and forever come much, much, much too soon.”
“And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support.”
Source: Notes on Leaving
“And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.”
Source: Dexter by Design
“And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.”
“And as an actor, just working with someone as seasoned and professional and kind as Richard Jenkins, it's always a learning experience watching him - on camera and off camera, just soaking it all up.”
“And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.”
“And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.”
Source: Complete Poems and Major Prose
“And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.”
“And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.”
“And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.”
Source: The Blue Umbrella: A Novel
“And as ensemblists start being asked to do more things that require an insane skill set, that inherent value will, I hope, be held up where it deserves to be.”
“And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.”
“And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.”
“And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.”
“And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.”
“And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.”
“And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.”
“And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.”
Source: Big Sur (Annotated)
“And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.”
“And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.”
“And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market”
“And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.”
“And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.”
Source: One Taste
“And as for children...the more love you showered on them, the more loving and lovable they became. pg304”
Source: Hakuda Photo Studio
“And as for death - we get what we expect.”
Source: Soul of the city
“And as for girls who try to stay away from me—my charm always wears them down.”
“I’m up-to-date on my shots, so I’m pretty much immune to everything.”
Source: There You'll Find Me
“And as for his being a cold fish, I can assure you most definitely that he is not. Furthermore-"
"Sophia," Sir Ross interrupted softly, "you don't have to defend me, my love."
"Well, you're not," she insisted.
His hand turned palm up to grip hers, and for just a moment the pair stared at their interlaced fingers with a shared pleasure that seemed unspeakably intimate. Lottie felt a peculiar ache in her chest. What must it be like to love that way? The two of them seemed to take such enormous delight in each other.”
Source: Worth Any Price
“And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.”
Source: The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer
“And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes