Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.
Jeanine Basinger
Recitation: by Male by Female
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
John Burnside
ArtTalentPaintingLovedThree
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
Robert Stone
LifeLife Is AFictionMeans
I think fame makes people a bit nervous.
John Hurt
PeopleThinkFameNervousI Think
On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.
Stephen Kinzer
PresidentFirstVictimPrimeJune
I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'
Simon McBurney
DecisionTheatreWinningSayingJust
We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.
Louis MacNeice
WorkPushHandsKnowVisualizeUs
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
Jonathan Shapiro
LawCountryExpectationWillTorture
I feel that it's lovely when, as a user, you're not aware of the complexity.
Jonathan Ive
FeelYouLovelyComplexityAware
So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.
Della Reese
SillyYouLostScaredYourKnew
In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been performing country music since they were kids. It's very much a part of who they are; very much that jazz and blues are a part of who I am, because I grew up listening to and playing that kind of music.
Chris Carmack
MusicI AmIdentityPeopleWorld
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Austin O'Malley
ArtImaginationPlantsWilderness
I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.
William Klein
ThinkBathNothingSharkI Think
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