Michael Nyman Quotes

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

Michael Nyman

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• I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Focus
  • Yourself

• I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Gay

• Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Balance

• My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Doing

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Focus
  • Sometimes
  • Easy

• Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Different
  • Character

• As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Actor

• The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Focus
  • Research
  • Islamic

• I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, 'If Yuna can break through, then why can't we?' It takes a lot of work, but I tell people to just have that focus. Always be humble and a learner, practice and do research.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Focus
  • Intelligence
  • Budget

• I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

  

  Rain
  • Different
  • American
  • Success

• Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Future
  • Education
  • Focus

• We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Focus

• There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Focus
  • Negativity

• I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

  

  Mary Lou Retton
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Giving

• I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Stories

• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Done
  • Hear
  • Drummer

• Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.

  

  Jessy Schram
  • Trust
  • Flying

• I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

  

  Michael Nyman
  • Focus
  • Circumstances
  • Events