Ving Rhames Quotes
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
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The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
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The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.