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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from...

Quote by Ansel Adams about art, word

A man is literally what he thinks.

Quote by James Lane Allen about man

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

Quote by Michael Caine about actors

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Quote by Glenn Close

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

Quote by Glenn Close about blood

Going to India is an opportunity to remember, literally, what the mission is, why we're here.

Quote by Richard Gere about chance

After making Titus I decided to take a year out and apart from a small part in Mission Impossible 2 which took 10 days, I went back to LA and literally tended the flowers in the garden, walked on the beach, climbed the mountains, drove my car and...

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about flowers, garden, impossible, day

When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about parents, mother, old, olderness

I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and...

Quote by Chris Isaak about trains, past, home, old, olderness

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

Quote by Joy Page about life, change, mind, contentment

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

Quote by Tim Page about opinion, poker, being, people

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Quote by Walter Pater about life, objects, poetry, common sense, sense

I auditioned for six months, twice a week. The reason I kept going back was because Adrian was literally fighting for me to get the role.

Quote by Elizabeth Pena about reason

The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do...

Quote by John Perkins about nation, country, people

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about nature, hope, old, olderness, man

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Quote by Mel Brooks about life, comedy, contentment