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Like
Knew
I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
- A. Scott Berg
Mr
Least
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
- Adam Cohen
Pretty
Abroad
Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.
- Ajay Devgan
Allow
Other
VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Death
Eternity
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
New
Agency
As a creative agency, the film industry is thinking great subjects, presenting them wonderfully well, and giving opportunity to new faces each day.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Me
Pick
I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
- Andy Rooney
Within
Terror
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
- Anish Kapoor
Always
Companies
Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.
- Anne Wojcicki
Love
Pretty
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- Annie Dillard
Alone
Loves
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- Annie Dillard
Forced
Unwilling
Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
- Arthur Keith
Always
Very
I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs.
- Cheech Marin
Myself
Using
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
- Chuck Klosterman
Science
Whiz
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
- David Crane
Tories
Christians
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
- David Hume
Very
Realised
I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.
- Deborah Harkness
Moods
Infinitely
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
- John Drinkwater
Want
Equally
I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.
- John Jeremiah Sullivan
Fiction
Some
There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
- John le Carre
Here
Laid
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
- Jonathan Mayhew
Contented
Dutiful
It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.
- Jonathan Mayhew
King
Very
Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.
- Joseph Brant
Film
Which
In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.
- Joshua Oppenheimer
Myself
Use
A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.
- JR
Bed
About
The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.
- Beeban Kidron
Book
Another
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
- Bill Bryson
Journey
Which
Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.
- Boman Irani
Technology
Using
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
- Jack Dangermond
Teach
Which
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
- James Meade
Most
About
One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
- Jean Piaget
Run
Disease
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
- Jello Biafra
Paint
Need
To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
- Elizabeth Peyton
Questions
Scale
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
- Karl Lehmann
Survive
Eternal
If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
- Elliott Erwitt
Young
Young Women
It's so great to be able to inspire these young women today to get involved in male-dominated subjects.
- Katie Taylor
Try
Sensitive
As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.
- Keith Maitland
Feet
About
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
- Ernest Bramah
Think
Will
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
- Frank Herbert
Ideas
Come
All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.
- Lauren Greenfield
Pleasure
Cliche
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
- Leslie Jamison
Want
About
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.
- Liam Gallagher
Work
Over
Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
- Sally Mann
Last
Which
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
- Thomas Hobbes
Unconventional
Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.
- Poe Ballantine
Talk
Few
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
- Pythagoras
Art
Importance
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
- Muriel Spark
Want
Learned
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
- Shahid Khan
Which
About
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
- Richard Rodney Bennett
Became
Persuaded
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
- Vernon L. Smith
Myself
Before
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
- Victoria Woodhull
Like
Prefer
I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
- Om Puri
Everyone
About
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
- Robert Conquest
Always
Admirable
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
- Stephen Ambrose
Like
Sealed
I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.
- Steven Klein
Looking Back
Back
I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.
- Stormzy
Sports
Had
I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.
- Suriya
Like
Tell
As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.
- Ronald Kessler
Degree
Set
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
- William Morris
Decision
Means
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.
- William Safire
Them
Could
The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
- Michael Socha
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