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“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Stills Sometimes Character Values Asks Moral Opinion Struggle Issues Media Responsible Don't Believe Censorship

Author:Katey Sagal

“I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.”

Believe Stills Hard Character Reality Care Culture I Believe Missing Ready Wave Pops Satire Pop Culture Commentary

Author:Zack Snyder

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

People Believe Heart Stills Character Seems Motivation Hope Wonder Impossible Havens Ideals Human Rights Divorce Christian Inspirational Absurd Spite Idealism I Still Believe

Author:Anne Frank

“I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.”

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Author:Melissa McCarthy

“I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.”

Thinking Kind Stills Different Done Character Fun Seeing Crowds Ballparks

Author:Frank Miller

“Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.”

Needs Stills Character Effort Watches Accomplish Stillness Minimum Hopkins

Author:Morgan Freeman

“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.”

Humans Looks Persons Stills Character Artist Order Individual Memories Simple Behinds Effects Painting Depends Response Who We Are Simple Truths

Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of Greg The Bunny. And I'm still close to a number of the creative people, Dan Milano particularly, who created Warren The Ape and Greg The Bunny and all of those characters.”

People Stills Character Numbers Creative Redemption Episodes Apes Creative People Bunnies Subculture

Author:Bob Gunton

“Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.”

Men Stills Character Hands Christian Faces Church Grace Plans Honest Brave Cheerful Cant Trumpets Honest Man Loathing Pretence Grace Christian

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.”

Humans Stills Character Feelings Film Reading Watches Audience Written Computer Dialogue Filmmaker

Author:Roger Ebert

“I once started a detective story to make moneybut I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!”

Stills Ends Character Stories Three Murder Making Money Chapters Going To Work Corpses Detectives Describing Milieu Detective Stories

Author:Mary McCarthy

“Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.”

Ifs Stills Character Wise Judging Kings Saint Ministers Bishops Lawns

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.”

Want Stills Book Ideas Sometimes Character Talking Clear Calling Pages Fifty Sixty

Author:Joan Didion

“I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.”

Thinking Made Stills Hard Character Action Interesting Study Sentences Hard Times Fascinating Cash Contradictory Interesting Characters One Sentence

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing, are willing to judge people on the basis of their ideas and their character. And in the case of the presidency, I think what's most important is whether the American people think that you understand their hopes and dreams and struggles and whether they think you can actually help them achieve those hopes and dreams.”

People Thinking Knows Stills Important Ideas Character Helping Dream Cases Struggle Achieve Willing Judging Bases Prejudice Majority Core Decent Midst Presidency Hopes And Dreams

Author:Barack Obama

“From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.”

Mind Stills Character Courses Father Games Results Player Walking Shots Balls Mark Golf Opponents Score Flaws Preparing Courtesy Abiding Golf Course

Author:Arnold Palmer

“We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.”

Way Stills Character Stories Hate Forever Disease Finals Scripts Neglect Insidious Final Words

Author:Jennifer Beals

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