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'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s. -- Howard Shore
Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo. -- Cleo Moore
One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo. -- Cindy Sheehan
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo. -- Jose Clemente Orozco
We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies. -- John Logan
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo. -- Mickey Spillane
My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman. -- Rob Lowe
I'm a Joseph Abboud fan. I'm a Hugo Boss fan. I'm a Brooks Brothers fan. As far as suits go, those are my go-tos. -- Rich Sommer
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. -- John Logan
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work. -- Daniel Alarcon
When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England. -- Douglas Booth
I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before. -- Greg Egan
My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know? -- Gillian Jacobs
I like All Saints. They make great leathers. I love Hugo Boss, especially the suits. I like James Perse for T-shirts, and Supra and Radii for sneakers. And God Is in the Details. -- Marlon Wayans
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders. -- F. Sionil Jose
Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? -- Jose Saramago
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. -- James Welch
Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play. -- John Logan
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. -- James Merrill
I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid. -- Brian Selznick
My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon -- Raymond Roussel
My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon. -- Raymond Roussel
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo -- Jean Cocteau
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret -- Brian Selznick
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo. -- Jose Clemente Orozco
Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these. -- George R. R. Martin
New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo. -- Jim C. Hines
If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. -- Pat Robertson
Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him. -- Brian Selznick
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place. -- Brian Selznick
I don't want to send my money to a bunch of Hugo Chavez-loving, Ivy League ideologically educated, politically opportunistic careerist in Washington, D.C. -- Sean Hannity
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now. -- Brian Selznick
For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work. -- Daniel Alarcon
Les MisÃ©rables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it. -- Graham Robb
Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba. -- Mitt Romney
"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless. -- Wilferd Peterson
Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough. -- Cassandra Clare
Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language. -- Richelle Mead
Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose? -- Patrick McGrath
Unfortunately, in this Obama Government, we have charges of drug trafficking and terrorism. For Evo, it's drug trafficking. For Hugo, it's terrorism. Evo Morales, drug trafficking. Hugo Chavez, terrorism. -- Evo Morales
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For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles. -- Charles Stross
Of all the characters I've played, I relate the most to Isabel in Hugo. She's so adventurous and fun. She just loves reading books and those are her adventures. Isabel is a heightened version of my personality. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
Don't panic, but we've got an audience." Clary turned her head. Perched on a nearby tree branch was Hugo, watching them beadily from bright black eyes. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing. -- Cassandra Clare
Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like your broken. -- Brian Selznick
I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain. -- Vera Nazarian
The war broke out, and for a number of years I lived in darkness, with the memory of the lakes, the trees and the skies of Sweden, until I returned in 1946 to spend two unforgettable years in the laboratory of Hugo Theorell. -- Christian de Duve
Hugo, we are taught to be advanced in every form from academically to socially. I think our parents fucked it up, taking that advancement for granted. They wanted us to grow up with everything and in return of that we became spoiled. -- Chelsea Ballinger
That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine" Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls. "Very nice," said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. "I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle." "It's cheap, that's the main thing. -- Stephen Fry
I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever. -- David Plotz
That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to TomaÅ¾ Å alamun's famous line, "Every true poet is a monster." Or why Richard Hugo writes that the imagination is a cynic. T -- Matthew Zapruder
She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle. -- Brian Selznick
FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci. -- Dan Brown
One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources of the state for yourself, you don't build much of a constituency and you have to rely on repression, and repression is difficult in the modern world. -- David Frum
Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose? -- Charles Foster Johnson
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. -- Ray Bradbury
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him. -- August Wilson
In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man - Poussin, for example, or Victor Hugo. They can't help it. Even if they don't believe in that, it gets in their system. And so when they come to produce something of their own, the tradition is nearly indestructible. -- Marcel Duchamp
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it. -- Jacob Epstein
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged. -- George Edward Woodberry

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