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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. ↗

— William Falconer

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Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. ↗

— William Falconer

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Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. ↗

— William Falconer

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The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. ↗

— William Falconer

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I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. ↗

— Peter Falk

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What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on! ↗

— Peter Falk

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You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.' ↗

— Jonathan Cain

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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. ↗

— Mel Brooks

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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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