Walter Murch
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WALTER ALSTON I put myself through college playing pool. WALTER ALSTON I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things. WALTER ALSTON The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi... WALTER ALSTON I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job. WALTER ALSTON I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or ho... WALTER ALSTON I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ... ULRICH WALTER Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I... ULRICH WALTER WALTER WRISTON WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL WALTER WINCHELL What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of... WALTER WASHINGTON Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor... WALTER WASHINGTON I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. WALTER WAGER I always liked spy stories. WALTER WAGER I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting. WALTER WAGER In France, I learned about wine and cheese. WALTER WAGER I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. WALTER WAGER The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, a... WALTER ULBRICHT May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany. WALTER ULBRICHT The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize pr... WALTER ULBRICHT The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine... WALTER ULBRICHT The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the fe... WALTER ULBRICHT When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det... WALTER ULBRICHT The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democrati... WALTER ULBRICHT In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. WALTER ULBRICHT The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individuall... WALTER ULBRICHT Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan ... WALTER ULBRICHT The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a f... WALTER ULBRICHT The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict... WALTER ULBRICHT Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe... WALTER ULBRICHT This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. WALTER ULBRICHT It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification. WALTER ULBRICHT Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obs... WALTER ULBRICHT Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. WALTER ULBRICHT The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ... WALTER SMITH There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life. WALTER SMITH From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ... WALTER SMITH Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. WALTER SMITH I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent... WALTER SMITH If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana... WALTER SMITH Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I... WALTER SMITH Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. WALTER SMITH WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT WALTER SCOTT When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT. WALTER SALLES We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred... WALTER SALLES The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America. WALTER SALLES The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that ... WALTER SALLES The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for t... WALTER SALLES The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be... WALTER SALLES That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you unde... WALTER SALLES So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil. WALTER SALLES So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country. WALTER SALLES So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialog... WALTER SALLES No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil. WALTER SALLES It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gott... WALTER SALLES I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films. WALTER SALLES I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times. WALTER SALLES I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. WALTER SALLES I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young c... WALTER SALLES But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the begin... WALTER SALLES Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American film... WALTER SALLES My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to cu... WALTER SALLES I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent. WALTER SALLES And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done... WALTER SALLES Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who wen... WALTER SALLES A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots. WALTER SALLES The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil. WALTER SALLES There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much pr... WALTER SALLES On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. WALTER SALLES WALTER REUTHER WALTER REISCH WALTER REISCH WALTER REISCH WALTER REISCH WALTER REISCH WALTER REISCH Christianity is in its nature revolutionary. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations... WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike... WALTER RALEIGH Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. WALTER RALEIGH WALTER PAYTON WALTER PAYTON WALTER PAYTON WALTER PAYTON WALTER PAYTON WALTER PAYTON
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