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“It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.”

Way Ends Film My Own Seeing Ghost My Way Phantoms

Author:Sergio Leone

“It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.”

Thinking Men Spirit Speak President Challenges Justice Opinion Worship Oppression

Author:Herbert Hoover

“It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Has Beens Hard Growth Son Essentials Educated My Son Hard Way Further Education

Author:Dhirubhai Ambani

“It [going from mini-series to series] was never even discussed because it [The Starter Wife] was, you know, an adaptation of a novel. And we - the mini-series encompassed the whole novel. And so it was always going to be a finite sort of event. And then I imagine when people started to really respond to the show and then we got ten Emmy nominations, USA sort of said, "Oh, I think maybe we have something here."”

People Thinking Knows Said Whole Shows Novel Imagine Events Ten Series Usa Finite Adaptation Nominations Emmys

Author:Debra Messing

“It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of weight to it. But it was very smart and very intelligent and had this kind of historical element to it that I was fascinated by. It's not silly. It's not stupid. It's fun, but I think it's smart. I think Akiva [Goldsman] writes really interesting material and there you have it.”

“It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.”

Thinking Men Firsts Made Wanted Brother First Time Introspection Assassination Unprepared

Author:Jack Newfield

Source: RFK: A Memoir

“It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.”

Feels Dies Language Born Loss Horror Universal Vices Suspense Genre Loved Ones Vice Versa Horror Genre Universal Language Loss Of A Loved One Disfigurement

Author:John Carpenter

“It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.”

Men World Evil Social Moral Source Ambition Worship Fellows Fellow Man Idolatry Moral Evil

Author:Abba Eban

Source: My people: the story of the Jews

“it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.”

Ifs May States United United States Development Russia Rivals

Author:Bertrand Russell

Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

“It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.”

Needs

Author:Barack Obama

“It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.”

Years Mind Children Opinion Influence Unfair Discretion

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.”

Body Missionary Preacher Organisation Evangelists

Author:Abul A'la Maududi

“It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.”

Persons Justice Virtue Exercise Ethics Relation Active

Author:Aristotle

“It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as a kind of capital structure, corresponding to information as an income flow. Knowledge, that is to say, is some kind of improbable structure or stock made up essentially of patterns - that is, improbable arrangements, and the more improbable the arrangements, we might suppose, the more knowledge there is.”

Kind Made Might Information Flow Regard Structure Patterns Income Related Arrangements Economist Tempted Improbable Corresponding More Knowledge

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.”

Knows Firsts Artist Process Like You Finals Drawing Application Pencils Ink Lighting Being An Artist

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.”

Ifs Thinking Way Stories Mirrors Hills Meant To Be Compelling Portraits Right Time Capitol Were Meant To Be Capitol Hill

Author:Steven Spielberg

“It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.”

Difficult Hours Half Tests Performances Endurance Live Performance

Author:Steve Martin

“It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.”

Play Stories Kids Acting Roles Grew Toys Dolls Role Playing

Author:Morgan Freeman

“It [making tron: Legacy movie] was everything. I got pulled into a different country, in a different language, and a different society. In a movie, it's a completely different feel. In car design you know you have one year, and you have to go step by step. This is an organized catastrophe.”

Knows Feels Years Different Country Language Steps Car Design Legacy Organized Catastrophe Different Countries Different Languages

Author:Daniel Simon

“It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.”

People Self Reason Feelings Drug Hatred Obstacles Insight Session Condemnation Self Hatred Biggest Obstacles

Author:Ann Shulgin

“It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.”

Feels States Action United United States Military Iraq Ashamed Humiliating Military Action

Author:Jessica Lange

“It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they are from and what they are trying to do with their lives. It is not a stereotype that has been pasted onto somebody. These are stories that come from Barry's [ Jenkins] and Tarell's [Alvin McCraney] mothers.”

Trying Has Beens Character Stories Mother Three Deals Drug Addiction Parenthood Stereotype Moonlight Drug Addiction Drug Addict Single Parent

Author:Andre Holland

“It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since I've had Kai than in any other period in my life...It's such an incredible catalyst for growth. I found myself questioning absolutely everything: how I spend my time, how I speak, what kind of projects I work on, how I look at the world.”

Thinking World Humans Looks Kind Mean Found Speak Growth Human Beings Changed Periods Projects Incredibles Motherhood My Time Touching Questioning Catalyst Changed My Life I've Changed

Author:Jennifer Connelly

“It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.”

“It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.”

Ifs Enough Lucky Personal Relationships Personal Business

Author:Graham King

“It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.”

People Dream Stuff Strange Connections Random Stuff

Author:Quentin Dupieux

“It [moviemaking] is not really done on a yearly basis. It's about how the material, and when the material comes in. If you develop your material and the script comes in great and you can attach a director and a cast and go off and make it, then I could make, I don't know, six [movies] a year. Or I could make one. It really depends.”

Ifs Knows Years Done Materials Depends Directors Six Bases Scripts Casts

Author:Graham King

“It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."”

Doe Said Bigs Wanted Guy Sound Voice Ears Singers Noses Throat Vocal Cords Warts Vocal Cords

Author:Joan Baez

“It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.”

Giving Would Be Decent Prize Oscars Nobel Motion Pictures Nobel Peace Prize

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It [our best show] was this year, the 7th of January in Eilat, Israel; 6,000 people in the desert going absolutely mad!”

People Years Shows Mad Israel Desert January

Author:Tiesto

“It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.”

Interest Lessons Priorities Piano Classical Music Piano Lesson

Author:Paul Smith

“It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.”

Giving Half Alive Waste Prejudice Actresses Famous Women Take Me Away

Author:Dorothy Dandridge

“It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.”

People Fun Easy Enjoy Roles Study Tests Preparing

Author:Gina Carano

“It [referring to calling a Minister "Idiot"] was probably not an appropriate term, but we support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win.”

Should Believe War Winning Term Effort Support Appropriate Allies Troops Our Troops Support Our Troops

Author:Stephen Harper

“It [RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE] has definitely been the biggest learning curve for me. As an actor, whenever I start on a movie, different things that I perform in ask for different skill sets. And this one is definitely the technological side of it. You have to hit your mark. You can't weave back and forth because your nose is jutting at you in 3-D. It's really been learning how to do that and also it's exciting to be on the forefront of this technology.”

Different Evil Actors Asks Sides Technology Skills Exciting Mark Noses Different Things Afterlife Technological Curves Back And Forth Residents Learning Curve Resident Evil

Author:Ali Larter

“It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.”

Long Moments Lasts Dies Names Gone Boring Retirement Retiring Dirt Retired Coffins Shovels

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.”

Revenge Honey Revenge Is Sweet

Author:Homer

“It [salvation] is not this flu shot mentality of an invitation of the Gospel.”

Shots Salvation Mentality Invitations Flu

Author:Paul Washer

“It [selecting as many candidates as possible] is also advantageous for the [Conservative] Party because it helps us to build a base in those areas where we have not in, recent times, been as active as we'd have liked. It means that opposing parties don't get a free run but are challenged to prove themselves to voters.”

Mean Helping Running Party Prove Areas Active Voters Opposing

Author:Theresa May

“It [sex-ed] was such a slow rollout for me. I just didn't know what the hell was happening.”

Knows Sex Hell Happenings

Author:Jen Kirkman

“It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he holds such absolute control over it that no single event in connection with it can take place without his permission”

Doe Form Sin Events Connections Absolutes Over It Permission

Author:James Petigru Boyce

“It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.”

Humans Hands Religion Heaven Church Prove Absolutes Slavery Flesh Mastery Dealer Priesthood Slaveholders

Author:William Lloyd Garrison

“It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.”

Faces Actors Scene Blow Smoke Cigarette Aphrodisiac

Author:Chris Matthews

“It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.”

Kind Bigs Political Girl Socialism Hockey Pants

Author:Mary McCarthy

Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

“It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.”

Want Mind Grows Space Growing Up Doubt Exciting No Doubt Adventurous

Author:Rick Husband

“It [success] is really by mistake.”

Mistake

Author:Ai Weiwei

“It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.”

Made Happened Police Terrorism Made It

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.”

Giving Food Thanks Culinary Puritan

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.”

Passion Crime Drug Bills Related Brady Panacea Crimes Of Passion

Author:Sarah Brady

“It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.”

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