Allison Schroeder Quotes

When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.

Allison Schroeder

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We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.

John C. Mather

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There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.

Andy Garcia

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'The Road' reminds me of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'

John Hillcoat

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In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

Tommy Caldwell

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The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

Robert Falcon Scott

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Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

Tom Clancy

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Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.

Rod Stewart

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Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything.

Mary Beard

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By the middle of the century, retirement culture - exemplified by timeshares in Florida, the golf industry, and AARP membership - was booming. Americans, it turned out, were pretty good at figuring out how not to do anything in their twilight years.

Mary Pilon

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I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

Miranda Hart

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For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

Lisa Leslie

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In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

Judi Dench

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