Luanne Rice Quotes

During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

Luanne Rice

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I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.

John Knoll

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At 21 years old, I found myself in Vancouver, and that's where I got the part for my first movie. I was sitting in a restaurant, and the director came up to me and asked me to read for his film. I really took it with a grain of salt. It was the creepiest casting situation, probably. It turned out that it wasn't.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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I always have days off before and after I go to the studio. That's really important for me that I know that I have days off after, 'cause then I can give my everything when I'm in the studio. I love being in the studio and being able to think, 'Okay, I'm not doing anything tomorrow.'

Sigrid

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I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.

Simon Schama

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Tom Stoppard

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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

Mary Beard

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I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.

Michael Zaslow

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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Doris Lessing

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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Chen Shui-bian

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I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

Colin Quinn

WorkThinkEndYouTryTailor

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Colin Angle

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