I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'
Elaine Miller: [in the middle of a class lecture] Rock stars have kidnapped my son!
Paul Biegler: If you do that one more time, I'll punch you all the way out into the middle of Lake Superior!
David Huxley: When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run.
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.
You have to understand when it hurt to love her, it hurt the way the light hurts your eyes in the middle of the night, but I had to see.
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.
So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.
The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.
We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.
I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.
I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.