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"Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it."
"And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position."
"You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like."
"Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to"
"Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do."
"Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him."
"Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist"
"I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek."
"We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone."
"I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me."
"It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look."
"I just wear what I think looks nice."
"I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!"
"I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about."
"Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come."
"I like the way the old Toyotas look."
"[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less."
"I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts."
"we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death"
"To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock."
