Theo Epstein Quotes

The leadoff-hitter thing, I think, it's always nice to have an established leadoff hitter and to have someone who can really get on base and set the tone.

Theo Epstein

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• Leadership means setting a moral tone.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Moral
  • Leadership
  • Tone

• The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Pressure
  • Walk
  • Camera

• Tone matters more than words.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Words
  • Matters
  • Tone

• 'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Seems
  • Ambitious
  • Tone

• I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm on set. People call me 'Grace' ironically because I'm not graceful. It's ridiculous.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • Grace
  • Set

• Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

  

  Franz Liszt
  • Song
  • Words
  • Singing

• I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Want
  • Boyfriend

• I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Environment
  • Set
  • Schedule

• I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Tone

• [On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Age
  • Man
  • Values

• The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Book
  • Tone

• I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Play
  • Songs
  • Old

• You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

  

  Glenn Tipton Judas Priest
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Stage

• I love my work, and I always get a jolt of adrenaline anytime I'm on set.

  

  Virginia Williams
  • Work
  • Set
  • Adrenaline

• Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Interesting

• I will say this: the first film that I was on was 'In the Heat of the Night', that Norman Jewison directed with Sidney Poitier. I'm on the set, and I'm totally taking it for granted. Everyone is working for everyone else and pulling for the very best, and it makes everyone better because you feel that effort and concern and appreciation.

  

  Scott Wilson
  • Film
  • Working
  • Everyone

• I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

  

  Annika Sorenstam
  • Important
  • Play
  • Tone

• Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

  

  Rumi
  • Value
  • Lose
  • Deserve

• if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

  

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • Language
  • Individual
  • Willing

• I find it gross to talk about bodily functions like shitting or farting or your period, if you're a girl, unless it's extremely necessary.

  

  Riley Keough
  • Girl
  • Function
  • Periods

• Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

  

  James Hansen
  • Civilization
  • Planet
  • Peril

• You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Create
  • Musician
  • Taste

• The leadoff-hitter thing, I think, it's always nice to have an established leadoff hitter and to have someone who can really get on base and set the tone.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Set
  • Tone
  • Hitter