John Whiting Quotes
Now we're starting to take a more holistic view and ... creating a more centralized strategy to negotiate your content with the vendor.
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Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
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Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.
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There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.
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Now we're starting to take a more holistic view and ... creating a more centralized strategy to negotiate your content with the vendor.
