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“Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.”

Years Humans Home Eye Strong Our Lives Dog Periods Sunset Adulthood Adolescence Finite Really Amazing

Author:John Grogan

“For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.”

Years Long Periods Block Writer's Block

Author:Mary Garden

“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Enjoy Interesting Gone Strange Periods Creating Photograph Atmosphere Fascinating Slips Surreal Most Interesting Ambience

Author:Kate Atkinson

“I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.”

Periods Drama Optimistic

Author:Andrew Davies

“I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.”

People Ifs Thinking Stuff Quality Periods Delighted Think Of Me

Author:Andrew Davies

“From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.”

People Thinking Way Want Littles Stories Bigs Moving Audience Periods Drama Hunger Nostalgia Rebel Sentimentality

Author:Andrew Davies

“One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.”

Periods Clothes Excuse Necks Drag Adaptation

Author:Andrew Davies

“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.”

Ifs Giving Choices Individual Perfect Results Audience Subjects Listening Involved Periods Drama Treatment Instruction Sympathetic Freedom Of Choice Great Results

Author:George P. Baker

“What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.”

Years Sometimes Play Periods Tragedy Tragic Elizabethan

Author:George P. Baker

“A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.”

Men Persons Fool Periods Clever Cleverness Clever Man Time Periods

Author:Voltaire

“What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.”

Way Nature Periods Garden Disappear

Author:John Gould

“Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.”

Men World Has Beens War America Fighting Darkness Periods Men And Women Plunge Waging War

Author:Mark Kennedy

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.”

Doe Sometimes America Periods Taste Tolerance Intolerance Persecution Euphemism

Author:Robert Hughes

“There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.”

Knows Years Firsts Lost Felt Birth Couple Periods Moved Singers Meant To Be Nashville Were Meant To Be

Author:Faith Hill

“From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.”

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

Thinking Knows World Humans Looks Light Comedy Awareness Periods Demand Human Life Tension Adages Lighters Lightness Languish

Author:James Thurber

“Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Feels Seems Age Today Order Individual Voice Alive Middle Periods Ears Folks Contemporary Who We Are Historian Middle Ages Chaucer

Author:Terry Jones

“Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.”

Long War Self Periods Preparation Recessions Perpetuating

Author:Paul Johnson

“Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.”

Looks Reason Eye Views History Particular Periods Very Good Definitions Critical Accepted Historian Episodes Skepticism Historic

Author:Paul Johnson

“Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.”

Men Writing Two Poor Broken Periods Dull Knights Broken Man Broken English

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Reason Dream Reality America Events Internet Periods Taste Weakness Satire Intolerance Free Speech Euphemism Conjunctions Wildest Dreams

Author:Robert Hughes

“In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.”

Ends Humor School Funny Crime Periods Sentences Bells

Author:Steven Wright

“To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.”

Littles Made Film Fun Known Periods Relation Studios Cinema Things To Do Classic Italian Worthwhile Like Something Evoke Doing You Fun Things

Author:Wim Wenders

“I've always played music and I've always been in bands and there have been periods in my life where the music has taken a much more front row seat than any acting. For a big period of time the acting work was really a way of raising money to fund my music. And then that all sort of changed around and that's fine.”

Way Has Beens Bigs Acting Taken Fronts Changed Fine Periods Band Seats Fund Raising Money

Author:Jim Sturgess

“I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.”

Years School Bits Study Periods British Australia British History

Author:Eric Bana

“Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.”

People Social Simple Periods Crosses Village Sections Microcosm Feudal System

Author:Michael Haneke

“Of course there are many films about the period of Fascism itself but I don't know of any about that period beforehand. But it wasn't that specific fact that they weren't there that got me to think about this in the first place. It's not what led to the basic idea for the film, although it became apparent when I began to think about it.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Ideas Facts Film Courses Periods Fascism

Author:Michael Haneke

“Also for me, I don't make endless movies back to back all the time, I really sort of come to understand and love the characters that I play. And with April and Hanna you sort of go through a weird period of feeling sad about letting them go. Sometimes that takes me a week and sometimes it takes me a couple of months, just so that I can feel I can realign my own thoughts again. I do feel really, really blessed that I've had these opportunities.”

Feels I Can Sometimes Play Character Feelings Opportunity My Own Week Months Couple Periods And Love Blessed Endless Take Me April Feeling Sad

Author:Kate Winslet

“I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music?”

Ifs World Years Made Film My Own Modern Periods Lucky Radio Score What If Shore Filmmaking Classical Music Popular Music

Author:Martin Scorsese

“So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.”

Ifs Kind Next Challenges Lines Five Four Wonderful Periods Scene Mouths Worried Coming Out Back And Forth Trenches

Author:Glenn Close

“I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.”

Different Environment Written Periods Bother Odd Unfair Adaptation Thrust Back When Untrue Unkind Toronto Laid Back Different Environments

Author:Mike Myers

“I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.”

Feels Trying Whole Hands Wealth Roles Pieces Periods Dramatic Getting Started

Author:Mandy Moore

“It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.”

Film Periods Commitment Dedicated

Author:Cameron Diaz

“I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.”

Years Firsts Matter States Done Church Periods Tools No Matter What Trials Torture Witch Witch Trials

Author:Eli Roth

“Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.”

Needs Would Be Motivation Stuff Can Do Loses White Periods Fishes Meals Pounds Eggs Chickens Realistic Protein Happy Day Boiled Eggs Hummus

Author:Tom Hardy

“Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.”

Way Mean Film Actors Acting Quality Audience Periods Performances Really Mean Victorian Formality

Author:Christopher Nolan

“I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.”

Knows Way Feels Kind Book Bits Painting Like You Periods Drama Boundaries Performing Costumes

Author:Keira Knightley

“I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I had a great desire to make another musical, but this time I wanted to be more ambitious.”

Years Long Stories Wanted Film Desire Periods Musical Ambitious Long Periods Of Time

Author:Christophe Honore

“I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.”

I Can Film Honest Periods Honest Work

Author:Michel Ocelot

“I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.”

Made Wanted Film Felt Periods Ghetto Here I Am

Author:Michel Ocelot

“You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.”

Thinking Form Actors Bits Periods Areas Lazy Terrific Sportsman

Author:John Hurt

“What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.”

Different Courses Levels Periods News Music Is Folks Entertainment Supposed To Be Bother Significance Village Passages Entertaining Rite Different Levels Folk Music Rite Of Passage

Author:Billy Corgan

“Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.”

People Want Certain Grows Growing Up Periods Evolve Necks Nooses

Author:Billy Corgan

“I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.”

Ifs School Term Acting Periods Safe Training If I Could

Author:Dane DeHaan

“Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life. And then other songs are only really important for certain periods of your life, and you move on from them and find yourself not necessarily needing to sing them anymore.”

Ifs Kind Important Moving Certain Song Periods Finding Yourself Rest Of Your Life Saddles

Author:Glen Hansard

“I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.”

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Author:Manolo Blahnik

“You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde Kostiff riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.”

People Memories Huge Periods Exciting Mad Extraordinary Hats Riding Bicycle Bad Memories

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.”

“The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.”

Thinking Writing Years Doe Book Happens One Thing Months Periods

Author:Charles Stross

“My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.”

Knows Feelings Running Today Fields Grew Periods Europe Posts Usa Guts Trends Gut Feelings Modernization

Author:Charles Stross

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