Nigel Dennis (Nigel Forbes Dennis) Quotes
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.
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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
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When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.
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This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspiration to me.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?
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The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.
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Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
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My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.
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The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world of the internet is and how it's a platform to project their greatest anger and frustrations. But it's also a place where people can wax lyrical and be effusive in their glowing fondness of something.
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These people vary from some of our senior managers who are helping getting the project office set up to construction workers.
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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.
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If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
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Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
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My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
