William Trevor Quotes

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

William Trevor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 24, 1928 - November 20, 2016

Topics

ImaginationThinkingUnderstanding

The tone of 'Pitch Perfect' is so specific, and from the studio's perspective, they wanted someone who could step right in and seamlessly understand the movie comedically and musically.

Max Handelman

PerspectiveStepSomeonePerfectWho

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Ambrose Bierce

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Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Shirley MacLaine

VisionChooseProfitNowOverMovie

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

Rob Delaney

ParentsPeopleSisterRoadLoved

No one can pronounce my name. My name is 'The Black Guy From 40-Year-Old Virgin'.

Romany Malco

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People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.

Montel Williams

BeginningPeopleImportantWildlife

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

SuccessFailureChildrenEternityUs

When I started out, I didn't know if I was ever going to make a movie.

Christopher Lloyd

KnowOutStartedGoingMakeMovie

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

Christopher Walken

VillainActionThinkYouPlayGuy

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

Claire Tomalin

PeopleMeFriendsClosest Friends

My dad's my nanny, so he spends a lot of time with me in L.A. when my mom's in Atlanta.

Ciara

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