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Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

Adlai Stevenson II

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1900 - July 14, 1965

Topics

Tree Speech Down Kind Conservation

Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.

Career Find Play Done Three Stage

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

Robert Pattinson

War People Chaos You Know Sometimes

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

Relationship Moment King Moving Yes

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

Guitar Alien Bar Because Most Known

I can't force people to agree with me.

Michel Hazanavicius

People Me Force Agree

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

Christian Lacroix

Tea Seeing Same Cup Idea Everybody

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

Me Blind Boy Streets Like Everybody

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Luck Fashion Clothes Down Princess

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

God Measure Go Dead Never Halfway

I love horror. I love 'The Shining,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Halloween,' all those kinds of things. I love zombies, especially '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later,' where the zombies are going faster than the George Romero ones. I love being scared; there's something that's awesome about your heart rate going up like that.

Love Heart Friday Horror Awesome Up

I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.

Richard Linklater

Patience Vision Road Long Cinema

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

Life Think You Duty Overcome Your

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