Adria Petty Quotes

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.

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• I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Individual

• Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Guilty

• I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Pop Music

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

  

  Young Jeezy
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  • Me
  • Rapper

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Energy
  • For Her

• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Music
  • Yoga
  • Cinema

• Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Story
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • World
  • Kind
  • Story

• I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Story
  • Romantic

• I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

  

  Barry McGuire
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  • Me
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• Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

  

  Sebastian Bach
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Honor

• My song can make you cry, take you by surprise. At the same time, can make your dry your eyes with the same rhyme. See what you're seeing is a genius at work, which to me isn't work, so it's easy to misinterpret it at first.

  

  Eminem
  • Time
  • Work
  • Song

• European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • American
  • Freedom

• I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.

  

  Duke Johnson
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Dream

• I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.

  

  Adria Petty
  • Music
  • Know
  • Story