A Quote by Fred Thompson

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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Fred Thompson
American - Politician
August 19, 1942 - November 1, 2015

All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm trying to answer the question. I don't think I'll ever have the words, but hopefully I'll have a few images.

Damian Loeb

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

Ilona Andrews

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

John McCain

You get two weeks after you do a shoe where you can test whether it's good or not - if you're going to like it in 20 years. Then I know that it's going to be my shoe for a long time. That doesn't happen very often, but it happens.

Manolo Blahnik

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

Jon Voight

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

Edmund White

Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.

Rajneesh

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

Edmund White

About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

Sabine Baring-Gould

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.

Antonio Banderas

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

Jack Kent Cooke

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Robert Frank

You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

Eugene O'Neill

Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.

Andreas Feininger

Like Hollywood, Washington, and New York City, Silicon Valley is in a moral crisis after a litany of revelations about predatory behavior by powerful men.

Emily Chang

I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.

Rachel Morrison

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