"I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV."
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"There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all."
"Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible."
"Moments are the elements of profit"
"Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it."
"As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director."
"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these"
"I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else."
"I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element."
"Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl."
"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not"."
"Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road."
"We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public."
"To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'"
"So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're going to tell you what's best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you'll probably still do it because you love them."
"It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical"
"I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much."
"Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies."
"One graphic element captured the essence of spring"
"From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense."