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My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.
Alexander McCall Smith

Positive, Country, Negative

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
Naomi Campbell

School, She, Used

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
Gloria Swanson

Moment, Sound, Side

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
Gloria Swanson

Talking, English, Press

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
Allen Klein

Humor, Problem, Frame

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
Richard Stallman

Power, America, Stands

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
Sargent Shriver

Peace, Live, Run

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
Cecil B. DeMille

Time, Down, American

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.
Silvia Cartwright

Forget, Energy, Big

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.
Shay Mitchell

Someone, Done, After

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.
John Grisham

Great, Famous, Book

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.
Ellen Barkin

Money, Movies, Woman

It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.
Ellen Barkin

Men, Girl, Mean

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Don DeLillo

Whole, Culture, Accident

As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
Carrie-Anne Moss

Respect, Try, Moment

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.
Dario Argento

Time, Enough, Wanted

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
Dario Argento

Time, Person, Another

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
Andrew Mason

Mom, Newspaper, Cutting

I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.
Robert Griffin III

Football, Person, Play

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
Ridley Scott

Moving, Company, Excellent

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.
Lynn Johnston

Love, School, Sex

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
Audrey Tautou

Law, Choice, Press

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.
Katie Price

Sun, Days, Week

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
Ian MacKaye

Music, Again, Create

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
Elliott Erwitt

Often, Taking, Exist

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Edvard Munch

Nothing, Emptiness, Memories

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
Uwe Boll

Alone, Dark, Around

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.
Jimmy Carl Black

Good, Great, Thought

People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
James Caan

Time, Why, Around

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
Ken Burns

Music, End, After

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