Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier to write. You have to make choices all the time - what to tell and what not to tell.
Lena Andersson
TimeWritingChoicesYouDistance
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
James Gray
CharacterActionDistanceMoodLevel
I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.
Henry Rollins
GreatCreativeWeirdWonderDistance
I'm putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's rap' or 'It's R&B,' but I'm stepping outside the box and making music for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I'm going the extra distance to be able to come across different.
Future
MusicMyselfMeDistanceUnderstand
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
David Horsey
OceanDistanceNowStrikeRight
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.
Charles Francis Richter
StrengthFallDistanceWillPoint
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Alexander Payne
LifeFailureHumorYouDistanceGet
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.
Virginia Postrel
DreamsProcessEnoughDistanceSeem
People are trading distance for dollars.
Ray Brown
PeopleDistanceDollarsTrading
From a distance, at a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic notions - quaint and sepia-toned from an America that no longer exists.
John Branch
TimeAmericaDistanceSeemMay
Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.
Laurent Baheux
PeopleDistancePicturesOthersTake
The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.
John Muir
GrowthWorldWoodsDistanceGlory
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
Ivan Illich
GodPrayerManDistanceGreater
The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.
Jeff Minter
PeopleIndependenceYouDistanceBig
Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.
Ben Rhodes
TimeLongDistanceLong TimeCuba
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
Amitava Kumar
PeopleDistanceComfortableLeft
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Yakov Smirnoff
LaughterPeopleDistanceTwo People
When I was a lieutenant in Special Forces many many years ago, I thought I was getting fat. And I started running, and I started running distance, which I enjoyed.
Stanley A. McChrystal
ThoughtFatDistanceSpecialYears
With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.
Tahar Rahim
GoodMeEagleDistanceKnowSay
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.
Tom Hayden
AcceptanceDistanceTryHardWell
Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
Sadie Jones
DistanceKnowLoyalKeepStillHow
In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.
Michel Faber
WorkThinkDistanceExploringUs
Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.
Orlando Bloom
HeroActionMomentsDistanceKind
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.
Lisa Randall
YouDistanceGravityWillWeakAway
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