Sets Quotes
1178 quotes by 1024 authors
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It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different…
— Jess Weixler
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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other…
— Harry Lorayne
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There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in…
— Marc Cherry
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I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
— Lavrenti Lopes
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There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the…
— G. H. Hardy
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Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is…
— Bengt I. Samuelsson
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On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.
— Carey Mulligan
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The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
— Hermann Hesse
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
— Eric Hoffer
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For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main…
— Robert Browning
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For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.
— John Dos Passos
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
— Sigmund Freud
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But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those…
— William Carlos Williams
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If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.
— Paul Fussell
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I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history…
— Tommy Lee Jones
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The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in…
— David Milne
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