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As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.
Peter Jackson
Words
Try
Believe
Films
Other
Draw
Some
Onscreen
Part
Simply
Observing
Participate
Invite
Make
Audience
Am
Trying
Front
Just
Where
In Other Words
Happening
Movies
Them
Film
Seat
Spectator
Filmmaker
One of the things that slightly annoys me in business is that we use words like innovation. Young people often think innovation is about doing something new, but actually it's not. It's about doing something better than your competition.
Peter Jones
Me
Business
Innovation
People
Words
Competition
Better
Young
Think
Slightly
One Of The Things
About
Something
Something New
New
Like
Annoys
Doing
Than
Often
Young People
Use
Your
Actually
Things
If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.
Peter Mayer
Work
Failure
You
Writing
Words
Revolution
Publish
Other
Books
Characters
Be Real
Brothers
About
Seems
He
Written
French
Well
Reader
French Revolution
Because
Context
Real
In Other Words
Whether
Serious
Publisher
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'
Peter Shaffer
You
Words
Dangerous
Later
Both
Write
Exciting
Look
Because
Verbal
Making
Am
Discover
Very
Wonder
Did
Just
Patterns
Mean
Really
Your
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Peter Weir
You
Words
Fear
Become
Too
Way
Seem
Case
Rather
Could
Put
Self-Conscious
Almost
Ideas
Understood
Arrived
Banal
Personal
Any
Which
Them
Meaning
Choices
Full
Many
Deeply
The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.
Petina Gappah
Man
Struggle
Women
People
Song
Words
World
Men
Men And Women
Hair
Big
Shoes
Own
Every
Imagination
Destiny
Marley
Dream
London
New
Towering
Around
His
Big Hair
Up
York
New York
Lit
Decide
Bob
Bob Marley
Sang
Platform
Right
Zimbabwe
Every Man
My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there are a lot of things which you can say in Czech, but you cannot really translate, because the meaning would make no sense.
Petr Cech
You
Words
Language
Sense
Say
Would
Favourite
No Sense
Combinations
Make
Because
Lot
Just
Just Because
Cannot
Which
Meaning
Translate
Really
Many
Czech
Expressions
Actually
Things
It is so cool having complete control over something because, with acting, it's words written by other people that you perform; you do something that's completely not yourself.
Peyton List
You
Yourself
People
Words
Control
Other
Complete
Something
Having
Written
Perform
Over
Because
Acting
Cool
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, and other conservative giants are the voices of the conservative movement's conscience. Every day, millions and millions of Americans - myself included - turn on their radios and televisions to listen to what they have to say, and we are inspired by their words and by their determination.
Phil Gingrey
Myself
Day
Every Day
Determination
Words
Conservative
Every
Other
Say
Giants
Gingrich
Rush
Rush Limbaugh
Voices
Inspired
American
Listen
Movement
Turn
Turn-On
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Sean
Included
Conscience
Millions
Millions And Millions
What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
Philip Kaufman
Time
Quality
Words
Harmless
Laughable
Archaic
About
Seem
Almost
Because
Were
Lot
Interesting
Really
Incendiary
Now
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Philip Schaff
Religion
Book
Words
Law
Church
Living
Paper
Pen
Reliable
Spirit
Recorded
He
Written
Put
Mosaic
Like
Redeemed
Witnesses
His
Deeds
Code
Ever
Founded
Honest
If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.
Philip Schultz
Confidence
Words
Assume
Right Words
Clarity
Find
Some
About
Idea
Feel
Safely
How
Get
Then
Right
Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Thoughts
Words
Care
Clothes
Dress
More
Only
Surely
Than
Person
Which
Deserve
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
Philip Yancey
Today
Me
People
Writing
Words
Met
Changed
Hundred
Hundred Years
About
Powerful
Greatest
Years
Greatest Things
Just
Just As Much
Much
Profession
Tolstoy
Lived
Actually
Things
We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
Piet Mondrian
Words
Language
Static
Ourselves
Only
Name
Which
Express
Designate
Things
Need
The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
Piet Mondrian
Man
Words
Impossible
Language
Will
Difficult
Minds
Ourselves
Must
Adopt
More
Obliged
Advanced
New
Most
Well
Make
Himself
Least
Understood
Same
Conventional
Use
Therefore
Even
Express
The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.
Piet Mondrian
Words
Word
Become
Past
Unreal
Individual
Abstract
Conception
Identified
Also
Sort
Limited
Traditional
Been
Blurred
Meaning
Meaning Of
Usage
Plastic
Interpretations
Vague
A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.
Pope Francis
Love
Heart
Words
Mother
Church
Before
Pay
Defends
Herself
Those
Scandals
Attention
Doing
Wonder
Hearts
Any
Whether
Much
Much Attention
Who
Filled
As an actor, 'Baahubali' has given me so much that I can't explain in words.
Prabhas
Me
Words
Given
Explain
Much
Actor
The advantage of doing away with words is that you can reach out to any part of the world.
Prabhu Deva
You
Words
World
Out
Part
Advantage
Reach
Doing
Any
Away
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
Pramila Jayapal
Me
Words
Mother
Matter
Language
Master
Taught
Literature
English
English Literature
Appreciate
There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with sign language, but the average person doesn't know that language. SixthSense, if equipped with speakers, can recognize the gestures and form the words - it will speak for him.
Pranav Mistry
Me
Man
People
Words
Speak
Language
Will
Sign
Recognize
Consumer
Excites
Know
Him
How
Equipped
Person
Gestures
Endless
Form
Cannot
Average
Average Person
Speakers
Help
Help People
Who
Applications
We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.
Prince Charles
Good
Words
World
Destruction
Other
Ensure
Restore
Parts
Halt
Forests
Order
In Other Words
Storing
Them
Naturally
Even
Carbon
My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.
Princess Beatrice of York
Memory
Words
Potter
Read
Were
Off
Jumping
Trying
Literally
Page
Earliest
Becoming captain of the World Cup team and winning it is something I can't express in words.
Prithvi Shaw
Words
World
Something
Winning
Becoming
Cup
Team
Captain
Express
World Cup
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Words
Matter
Few
Distilled
Proverb
Much
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