268 Silent Quotes for You to Enjoy

I went to Catholic grade school, so we sang a lot of religious songs: 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night.' Michael McDonald

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Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that. Michel Hazanavicius

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know. Michel Hazanavicius

I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything. Michel Hazanavicius

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When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural. Michel Hazanavicius

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story. Michel Hazanavicius

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I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre. Michel Hazanavicius

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With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created. Michel Hazanavicius

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I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence. Michel Temer

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Whether you're praying, meditating, you're getting silent, relaxing your mind... and you definitely want to train hard - in the weight room, on the track. You need to do all of it. Mike Daniels

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American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast. Mike Nichols

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I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all. Mindy Kaling

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What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? Muqtada al Sadr

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well. Namie Amuro

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You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. Nils-Axel Morner

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Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don't talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose. Ntozake Shange

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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. Pamela Hansford Johnson

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For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives. Pat Buchanan

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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights. Patina Miller

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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. Paul Eldridge

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I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. Paul Ryan

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Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films. Penelope Ann Miller

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