Period Quotes
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Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period. (Period Quotes)
You can’t do a machine without knowing something about how it’s going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don’t enjoy doing period clothes. (Period Quotes)
When people are entering a high-stress period, they don’t sleep and don’t exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite. (Period Quotes)
I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It’s always been my dream, as far as acting. (Period Quotes)
I know I’m as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we’re exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background. (Period Quotes)
I’ve done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period. (Period Quotes)
Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn’t normally. (Period Quotes)
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material. (Period Quotes)
I’m not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don’t really seek it out either. (Period Quotes)
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we’re going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical. (Period Quotes)
Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I’d get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn’t get anywhere with the painting. (Period Quotes)
The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a given period of your life. (Period Quotes)
There’s nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled. (Period Quotes)
Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer. (Period Quotes)
When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that’s not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects. (Period Quotes)
Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long. (Period Quotes)
I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them. (Period Quotes)
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication. (Period Quotes)
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That’s a crucial age, although it’s very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement. (Period Quotes)
Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn’t mean it’s easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel. (Period Quotes)
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category. There’s no sense to it. (Period Quotes)
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. (Period Quotes)
With period dramas, it’s very easy to get excited because I love to do them (Period Quotes)
Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978. (Period Quotes)
My top most priority is to deal with India’s massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time. (Period Quotes)
Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There’s no such thing as a studio edit. It’s the director’s cut, period. (Period Quotes)
Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life’s structure may rest and rise. (Period Quotes)
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem. (Period Quotes)
Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn’t show any effort. (Period Quotes)
I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That’s because I couldn’t read music, and the rest of the class was already eight or nine years into it. The teacher would sit down and hit a ten-fingered chord on the piano and you had to write all the notes down in about ten seconds. I just couldn’t do it. (Period Quotes)