I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
“God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Call it a motto, a slogan, or a tag line, it’s you … in shorthand.” — Debra Eckerling Copy Share Image
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. — Beck Copy Share Image
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography),… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“...there was no shorthand for "I'm sorry." You were obliged to speak those two words.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company. — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
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