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It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. ↗

— Michael Apted

#compelling #craft #directors #filmmaking #five

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#else #everyone #excel #most #necessarily

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#argument #bracket #brain #come #dealing

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#brow #brown #clean #committee #conventions

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts. ↗

— Bille August

#did #feature #feature film #film #finance

We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan. ↗

— Shaukat Aziz

#blankets #housing #need #pakistan #repair

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#become #better #committee #facilities #federation

For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#beacon #better #better life #borders #continued

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#easy #famous #get #getting #idiot

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. ↗

— George Balanchine

#beautiful #female #flowers #garden #gardener