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Robert J. Flaherty Quotes

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

Robert J. Flaherty

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality:
Birth: February 16, 1884 - July 23, 1951

Topics

Lie You Sometimes True Spirit Catch

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Attention You Important Real Pay

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

Funny Myself I Am Think Fat Really

I think I've been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.

Love Truth People Think Lost Say

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

Chance Thought Doing Dream Never

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Creativity Imagination Healthy

I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang.

Nice Plans Never Hang Just Like

I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn't reading anything great until I got older, but I used to read Agatha Christie mysteries and all of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' novels.

Great Time Bond Reading Long Kid

Glenda Jackson called me an amateur in 1976 when we were in a play, 'The White Devil.' I've never forgiven her.

Miriam Margolyes

Me Devil White Play Never Her

A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.

Great Time Experience City Think

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

Parents Mom Person Lucky Always

Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy.

Character Complicated Pretty Guy

On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.

Simple Game Blush First Hold Seems

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