Quotes with lines

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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • A. R. Ammons In nature there are few sharp lines.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Asa Gray In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Paul Klee In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Alex Cox It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Noël Coward Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
    Noël Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Amos Oz Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
    The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • Belle Boyd Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Mumy Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Gabriel Heatter Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Al Capone My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Anita Diamant One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Billy Collins Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bette Davis Pray to God and say the lines.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Cass Sunstein Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • James P. Hogan Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and con
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  • Lewis Thomas Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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