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Mind Actors Boys Baby Elements Possessed Popularity Disgrace Theatrical Good Actors Hallucinations

Source: Life of Mrs. Siddons

“It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.”

Trying Beautiful Moving Artist Study Elements Cameras Green Glasses Moving On Squares Inches Vivid Moved On Maine Ferns

Author:John Sexton

“In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.”

War Country Wish Opinion Return Balance Elements International Conclusion Welcome Preparation Anarchy Armament Balance Of Power

Author:Arthur Henderson

“Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.”

Men Whole Turns Choices Universe Views Development Skills Elements Spring Men And Women Consequence Attributes Sensitivity Linked Innate Indigenous Comprehensive Indigenous People Adaptive

Author:Wade Davis

“Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.”

Thinking Years Artist Found Term Numbers Tree Elements Photographer Forests Landscape Learning Experience

Author:John Sexton

“In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.”

Should Ends Focus Teacher Achieve Judging Keys Months Needed Conflict Elements Training Doctors Police Soldier International Iraq Officers Involvement Police Officer Robust

Author:John Olver

“When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.”

Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.”

Knows Feels Believe Humans Art Artist Human Beings Elements Photographer Poetic Being There

Author:Ernst Haas

“One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)”

Important Body Light Earth Science Universe Stars Objects Elements Originals Chemicals Investigation Celestial Affirmative Celestial Bodies

Book:The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins

Source: The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins

“The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.”

Firsts Humans Action Form Interesting Events Elements Dignity Agents Concrete Accuracy Presenting Truthfulness Reciting

Book:An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852

Source: An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852

“A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.”

Spiritual Religious Greatness Elements Eternal Regard Indispensable Solemn True Greatness

Author:Daniel Webster

“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”

People Looks Important Self School Belief Lost Sports Consciousness Strange Elements Awful Proportion Significance Narcissism Shyness Self Consciousness

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.”

Firsts Stills Memories Saws Elements Tables Excitement Vivid Periodic Table Vivid Memories

Author:Joe Murray

“I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.”

Stills Enjoy Talking Elements Excited Listeners Microphones

Author:Bob Edwards

“Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.”

Trying I Can Reality Chance Study Elements Mechanic Chances Are Elements Of Life

Author:Paul Auster

“My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.”

Want One Thing Students Masters Elements

Author:Chick Corea

“I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.”

Actors Taste Elements Likes Jumping Good Taste

Author:Luke Ford

“The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?”

Order Essentials Elements Universal Foundation

Author:Arthur Henderson

“The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.”

Needs Country Law Streets Drug Elements Gun Currents Criminals Our Country Disputes Prohibition

Author:Gary Johnson

“I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.”

People Thinking Enough Elements Comfortable Fairs Ghetto

Author:Neil Tennant

“The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.”

Differences Successful Essentials Behavior Elements Strategy Competitors

Author:Bruce Henderson

“We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.”

Failing Drama Limits Elements Appeals Poorest

Author:George P. Baker

“A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.”

Language Common Elements Obvious Binding Common Language

Author:Michael Howard

“My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.”

People Earth Religion Dies Known Christianity Fire Movement One Day Elements Cease Excitement Methodists Supernatural Elements

Author:John Wesley

“Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.”

Stills Two Real Strong Sports Perfect Enemy Higher Elements Theater Rate Technique Planes Ballet Arena Circus Artistry Dazzle Second Rate Pantomime

Author:John Simon

“Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.”

Source: Selected Writings

“Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.”

Earth Speak Heaven Water Sin Blood Elements Murder

Book:The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

“Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.”

Light Eye Earth Heaven Darkness Sun Air Flower Elements Glory Golden Thee Rays Rooted Eagles Fringe Dwelling Noon Sunflower Disk

Book:The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir

“There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.”

Real Self Elements Hip Hop Hips Hops Serving Real Self Self Serving Life Span

Author:John Mayer

“Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.”

Men Essentials Elements

Author:Paul Johnson

“It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.”

Giving Doe Values Moral Teaching Mankind Elements Deserve Dignity Aspiration

Author:Felix Adler

“There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.”

Ifs Men Giving Purpose Universe Acting Elements Dignity Universal Function Supreme Height Distinction Horizon Ordeals Acting As If

Book:Life and destiny

Source: Life and destiny

“We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.”

“There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.”

Long Real Reason Might Certain Known Principles Example Objects Elements Research Assuming Reason Why No Reason Permit Being Real Hypothesis Avoided Procedures Scientific Research

Author:David Bohm

“One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth's crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot.”

Knows Kind Enough Earth Natural Produce Elements Atmosphere Hawaii Indonesia Volcanoes Natural Elements

Author:Jim Gibbons

“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.”

“So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.”

Trying Form Artist Term Elements Statements Hopefully Visuals Compelling

Author:John Sexton

“So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're going to tell you what's best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you'll probably still do it because you love them.”

Ifs Want Stills Cases Elements Submission Love Someone Second Thoughts If You Really Love Someone

Author:Francis George

“I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.”

Thinking Knows Writing Different Stories Mystery Possibility Elements Performances Surprise Notion Scripts Determined Enormous Documentaries Framework Element Of Surprise

Author:Gail Levin

“None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.”

Ifs Knows Littles Hard Moments Life Is Fit Circumstances Healthy Elements Dignity Ill Over It Terminally Ill

Author:Ian Mcewan

“For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on White Collar over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.”

Years Character Shows Certain Fun White Roles Elements Six Tone Collars Hawks White Collar Breezy

Author:Matt Bomer

“I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.”

Thinking Matter Fire Middle Elements Clothes Tools Critical Stuck Cooks Dry Predator Morale Middle Of Nowhere Stuck In The Middle

Author:Bear Grylls

“A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.”

Looks Has Beens Book Character Certain Courses Term Wonder Amount Elements Comic Subtle Comic Book Animation Iconic Wonder Woman

Author:Bruce Timm

“Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.”

Thinking Has Beens Class Gay Elements Racist Unlikely

Author:Colin Firth

“I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a comedy and you can't quite call it a romantic anything. It's not quite a drama either really. But it has elements of all those things.”

Thinking Way Bits Comedy Drama Elements Genre Elude Groundbreaking

Author:Colin Firth

“I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.”

Knows Wells Play Film House Strong Fun Talking New York Brother Grew Band Elements Grew Up Musician Sitting Horns Drummer Soundtracks

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.”

Firsts Emotion Elements Sorry Connected

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Sam Fuller and 'Shock Corridor' can only be conjured as a mantra. 'Shock Corridor' is a classic work of art - it's unique. It comes from the unique experience of being Sam Fuller and yes, there's always that element of 'Shock Corridor' hovering around the picture, but never specifically. In fact, I didn't even screen it because it's in us. It's in me anyway. It's in me. It was a way of conjuring up support just by saying the name, 'Shock Corridor,' as I was going to shoot. Poor Sam [Fuller]...”

Way Art Facts Names Poor Support Elements Unique Screens Classic Shock Works Of Art Mantras Corridors Hovering Conjuring Unique Experiences

Author:Martin Scorsese

“The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound.”

Way Certain Sound Blood Elements Decided My Way Atmosphere Tone Visuals Select

Author:Martin Scorsese

“All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.”

Ifs Way Matter Character Film Song Situation Written Changed Fit Scene Elements Majors Mood Etc Sequence Discarded Walt

Author:Richard Sherman

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