"When we came to America, the movies here needed a "new wave." European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush, glossy pictures with this elaborate production design."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Vilmos Zsigmond

#America Quotes #Design Quotes #Different Quotes

“The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."”
“My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.”
“and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.58, A&C Black
“Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.”
“I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.”

Source : “Action Heroine” by Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. June 10, 2009.
“I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?”
“Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.”
“age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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