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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."
"whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself."
"If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them."
"England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter."
"When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room."
"Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax."
"Everyone knows how to choose; few know how to let go. But it's only by letting go of each experience that you make room for the next. The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously."
"I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell."
"I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it."
"Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was."
"No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day."
"All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room."
"These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within."
"For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and when I've finished I go into my room and I have many many records - jazz, classical and popular music. And I have this all at my disposal. I don't have to get a composer."
"There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many."
"Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room."
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all."
"Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room."
"If we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear."
"Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground."
