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Quotes About Subject

In a film like 'Kannathil Muthamittal,' I can't have a Rajnikanth or a Kamal Haasan. If you have a star, the expectation of the film is different. So, you cast according to the subject of the film. Some films are best done with stars because it gives you a base on which if you can get the correct performance, you can reach higher.
~ Mani Ratnam
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
~ Martin Parr
Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.
~ Mario Gomez
'The White Ribbon' had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of 'Amour,' it could have taken place in any country.
~ Michael Haneke
In Sarvamangalam,' I am fond of flowers and I want to own a nursery. My character talks only to flowers. If she is sad she will go and talk to flowers. It is not a comedy film, it is a nice subject.
~ Shamna Kasim
I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.
~ John Singleton
Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.
~ Richard J. Foster
Topology] is a purely qualitative subject where quantity is banned. In it two figures are always equivalent if it is possible to pass from one to the other by a continuous deformation, whose mathematical law can be of any sort whatsoever as long as continuity is respected.
~ Richard J. Trudeau
Never by any possibility must the minister's speech become a rival to his subject; that were to dishonor Christ, and not to glorify him.
~ Richard Lischer
Tyranny is always and everywhere the same, while freedom is always various. The well and truly enslaved are dependable; we know what they will say and think and do. The free are quirky. Tyrannies may be overt and violent or covert and insidious, but they all require the same thing, a subject population in which the power of the word is dulled and, thus, the power of thought occluded and the power of deed brought low.
~ Richard Mitchell
Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Do you like vegetables? Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. You is trying to change the subject, the Giant said sternly. We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.
~ Roald Dahl
that quality in me. And I know it wasn't only logic that made me think: I'm never going to write about a crucial election, a pivotal moment in my subject's life, and say that no one's ever going to know if it was really stolen or not until I've done everything I can think of to find out if it was stolen or not.
~ Robert A. Caro
That's a subject as safe as being in favor of Christmas.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Look into our histories, and you shall almost meet with no other subject but what a company of hare-brains have done in their rage.
~ Robert Burton
Of the matter of melancholy, there is much question betwixt Avicenna and Galen, as you may read in Cardan's Contradictions, Valesius' Controversies, Montanus, Prosper Calenus, Capivaccius, Bright, Ficinus, that have written either whole tracts, or copiously of it in their several treatises of this subject. 'What
~ Robert Burton
And at the core of this intensity of effort is in fact a quality that is genetic and inborn—not talent or brilliance, which is something that must be developed, but rather a deep and powerful inclination toward a particular subject.
~ Robert Greene
After luncheon, accordingly, when the other two had settled themselves into the chimney-corner and had started a heated argument on the subject of EELS
~ Kenneth Grahame
Ship, are you conscious now?" "My speaking establishes a subject position that might be conscious.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
~ James Madison
Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
~ James G. Frazer
If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.
~ Stifyn Emrys
That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is.
~ Ron Rosenbaum