Brian Eno Quotes

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wonderful

• My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Hard Work

• No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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  • Home
  • Hide

• Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Time
  • Work
  • Dog

• I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • You
  • Human
  • Human being

• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
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  • Question
  • End

• I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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  • Great
  • Believe

• When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
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  • Great
  • California

• If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

  

  Maira Kalman
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  • Music
  • Happy

• I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Basketball

• I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

  

  Coco Martin
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  • Pretty
  • Discipline

• One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Boundaries
  • Religions
  • Cultures

• Start with the young, work with them until they are adults, and they will demand real food.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Work
  • Real
  • Food

• I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don't like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• I think most character people that you talk to, it's like, whatever they offer us, we are thrilled to do. I won't do anything that's immoral or illicit. I did turn down eating a dead body once. I turned down a few really creepy horror movies. For the most part, I can usually find a way into whatever character.

  

  Beth Grant
  • People
  • Character
  • Creepy

• My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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