"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."

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Dorothy L. Sayers

#Political Quotes #Original Thought Quotes #Originality Quotes

“Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than onâ€¦there was something touching and appealing about her.”
“Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.”
“I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.”
“Don't go where I can't follow!”
“If I'm shooting actually a live-action movie and I feel like I can get the shots that I need with the existing 3D cameras, then I see there is no reason to not use those-to not shoot it in 3D. But there are limitations to the 3D cameras in terms of the amount of them, in terms of the size of them, in terms of where you can actually shoot them. There are definitely limitations so you have to weigh the costs. And you have to weigh also what ultimately what creatively you want to get.”
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
“The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.”
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.”

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