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  • Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Movie Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Running Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Writing Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Allies Quotes
  • Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Winning Quotes
  • When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rajneesh Quotes , Sadness Quotes , Cutting Quotes