Adam Frank Quotes

The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.

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• Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Ideas
  • Old
  • Quantum

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • World
  • May

• I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Story
  • Problems

• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Want
  • Story

• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual

• With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • You
  • Story
  • Give

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Age
  • Story
  • New

• There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Story
  • Books
  • Literacy

• I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Boy
  • Brother
  • Guys

• The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Story
  • Got
  • Filmmaker

• The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Dance
  • Story
  • Movement

• My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Ideas
  • Enough
  • Process

• The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Ideas
  • Adopt
  • Idiotic

• I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Ideas
  • Littles
  • Media

• What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

  

  Len Wein
  • Story
  • Reader
  • Effect

• You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.

  

  Uffie
  • Time
  • Career
  • Struggle

• When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee’s crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark sense.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • People
  • Sense
  • Grief

• The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.

  

  Adam Frank
  • Ideas
  • Story
  • Used