Essentializes Quotes

#1. My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

Andy Serkis

#2. A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

Kim Cattrall

#3. So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own financial interests before the financial interests of the principals, princi-pals whose interests they are really bound to observe first.

John C. Bogle

#4. Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.

Maya Banks

#5. [I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

Harriet Martineau

#6. Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#7. A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.

Marcel Proust

#8. From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

Linda Chavez

#9. The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize ... That's not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.

Rush Limbaugh

#10. A name means a lot just by itself.

Jenny Holzer