Quotes of: American-film Keyword

Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

Kevin McCloud

It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.

Richard Armitage

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

Rohit Shetty

When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.

Shantel VanSanten

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

Victoria Abril

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

Meg Ryan

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Rachel True

Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has ben...

Conservatives Without Conscience

Hey you — All our fevered history won't instill insight, won't turn a body conscious, won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothing to solve even as each moment is an answer.

Citizen: An American Lyric

Providing post-secondary and academic education to only 10 to 30 per cent of our prison population can translate to more than $60 billion a year added to state and national coffers.

College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons

(Prisoners) need an education. They need a GED to start with. Then they need some kind of training so when they get out they have a marketable skill. That way they can support themselves and they can support their families.

College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons

Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they can't tap into the anger that's real.

Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

[...] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world." "Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?" "We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.

The Great American Novel

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

The Best American Essays 1995

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.

Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family