A Quotes
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“As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.”
“As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.”
“As A-ma said, every story, every dream, every waking minute of our lives is filled with one fateful coincidence after another.”
Source: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.”
“As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.”
“As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.”
“As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point that sets fire to the spirit of man. ... Through the glass of His Incarnation He concentrates the rays of His Divine Truth and Love upon us so that we feel the burn, and all mystical experience is communicated to men through the Man Christ.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“As a Magnolia, you are always onstage.”
“As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.”
“As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.”
“As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!”
“As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.”
“As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.”
“As a male taxi driver in Tehran complained, “Women no longer know their place, and they have disoriented us men too. They are taking our place everywhere: in the universities, the ministries, on the streets. Wherever you turn, there are aggressive women ready to push you aside. You are lucky if they don’t trample you under their feet.”
Source: Mother Persia: Women in Iran's History
“As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.”
“As a male, I thought the female voice was so strong, unique, real and accessible to most females. In some way, shape or form, they felt like they could relate to it, on some level, because they went through some form of unspeakable horror like what Kilgrave did to Jessica [Jones]. That, in itself, is something that most people shy away from, even in shows that are on cable or in movies.”
“As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.”
“As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think I've only just got good in the last three or four years. I only watch my old films because, as someone who wasn't trained, that's how I look at my mistakes; I see something and I go, "Well, that's not good," and I learn from my mistakes. Same with the writing and same with the directing.”
“As a man and as a sports figure, you have to set limits and set boundaries on what can and cannot happen. Once you do that, your family will start to respect you. 'OK, I get it, he's all about football and handling his business,' and that's what I've done. In the past, when I was a young man - a younger man - it was hard for me to say no. Since I'm older, wiser, I know how to handle people, know how to say no, know when something is right and something wrong. I use proper judgment.”
“As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his courage for such a life.”
Source: The Galaxie and Other Rides
“As a man believes, so he will act.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“As a man experiences limits, he is motivated to give more. Through respecting limits, he automatically is motivated to question the effectiveness of his behavior patterns and to start making changes. When a woman realizes that in order to receive she needs to set limits, then automatically she begins to forgive her partner and explore new ways of asking for and receiving support. When a woman sets limits, she gradually learns to relax and receive more.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.”
“As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.”
“As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.”
Source: The Forgotten Man
“As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.”
Source: The Zebra-Striped Hearse
“As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.”
“As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.”
“As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.”
“As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.”
“As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.”
“As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd fit in my arms. ~Ren”
Source: Tiger's Curse
“As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.”
Source: The Lava in My Bones
“As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.”
“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favourable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, they take root and flourish, and make the man what he is mentally.”
“As a man is, so he sees.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery.
[Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott,
Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]”
“As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.”
“As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.”
Source: Esoteric Christianity
“As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.”
Source: The Improvement of the Mind
“As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.”
“As a man of 65, I prefer tea, which takes longer to prepare, and take even longer to taste it.”
“As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.”
“As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think
“As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies while not infallible will in the end serve the people faithfully and very, very well.”