“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.” PeopleYearsLittlesSaidI CanCountryCan DoFourWonderfulHappenedBrotherPeriodsThings HappenHeyParisFour YearsPilotsAirplaneMarvelousFlewTime PeriodsMarvelous ThingsWright Brothers Author:Burt Rutan
“When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.” WayWantWritingDoePlayUseSoundDifferencesPiecesWonderfulStudentsPeriodsComposerWonderful ThingsIndicationDurationPunctuationPlaywriting Author:Edward Albee
“Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.” IfsShowsBigsRealityUsedFantasyWonderfulTroubleFinePeriodsSeductiveAttending Author:Woody Allen
“A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.” IfsKnowsTryingSelfOrderWonderfulPeriodsHighestAbusePastorPerfectionism Author:Ashley Judd
“We rehearsed our 'Scarface' to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.” LongPlayWonderfulPeriodsCastsRehearsalScarface Author:Robert Loggia
“I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.” PeopleRealGrowsWonderfulPeriodsFakeAgendasReal FriendsNew FriendsFake FriendsWho Your Real Friends Are Author:Lady Gaga
“Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.” IfsBookStatesCharacterTodayGuyPassionEvilLiteratureWonderfulWrittenCenturyFlowerPeriodsYeahIncrediblesWorking ItTimeless19th CenturyAgelessFrench LiteratureBaudelaireDeep Passion Author:Johnny Depp
“I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.” IfsTryingKindLittlesDifferentEnoughPlayWould BeActionChallengesComedyWonderfulPeriodsDramaOriginalsGratefulDifferent ThingsBe GratefulSpoiledWonderful TimesTrying Different Things Author:Claire Holt
“I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.” ThinkingLongCharacterStoriesShowsMovingActorsInterestingHalfWatchesCreativeWonderfulTelevisionPeriodsDirectorsCreatingIncrediblesStorytellingMediumsObsessedTelevision ShowsTelling StoriesLong Periods Of TimeInteresting Places Author:Elijah Wood
“Every kid has a bug period, I like to say, and I just got so fascinated and I had that experience, that wonderful life of being able to go out on my own without really any supervision at all. I just lucked out that way. I was trusted as a kid.” WayKidsAbleMy OwnWonderfulPeriodsFascinatedTrustedBugsSupervisionWonderful Life Author:E. O. Wilson
“Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.” WantBeautifulHouseInterestingWonderfulPeriodsClothesBuiltEnglandLandscapeBrownCapabilityGardeningGardenerWigsGeorgians Author:Alan Titchmarsh
“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.” IfsKindNextChallengesLinesFiveFourWonderfulPeriodsSceneMouthsWorriedComing OutBack And ForthTrenches Author:Glenn Close
“Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.” ThinkingWonderfulPeriodsDramaPieOne LoveFormatUpstairsMarshes Author:Ellie Kendrick
“As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHelpingRunningLastsCertainOpportunityGoneWonderfulPeriodsCharity Author:Emma Watson
“Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.” WonderfulPeriodsWonderful Things Author:Howard Berger
“I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.” TryingStillsKidsFatherSportsWonderfulAchievePeriodsRight NowAchievementFathers DayGreatest AchievementHappy Fathers DayHappy Fathers Day God Author:Bo Jackson
“I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.” FirstsPersonsMadeReadingGivenWonderfulPeriodsRiversAccountsWorkersPhotographDetailsAvailableAidsTinyNewspapersSpokesVillageValleysRuinedRefugeeKoreanFirst PersonOrphanStreamingOrphanageGis Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of such wonderful people, such young actors - people like Matt Smith that I've been friends with for a while.” PeopleDoneYoungActorsFunPiecesWonderfulPeriodsTwistsYoung Actors Author:Douglas Booth