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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

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• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Done
  • City
  • Space

• I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Game

• I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Taken

• Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.

  

  DJ Khaled

• Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Wisdom

• Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

  

  Bjork
  • Energy

• It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • People
  • Alone
  • Morning

• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.

  

  Om Malik
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Listening

• I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.

  

  Kesha
  • Baby

• One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

  

  Eli Wallach
  • Learning
  • Magic

• If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Death
  • Die

• The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Time

• 'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are... in Moldova. Or not.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • People
  • Great

• I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Movie
  • High
  • Rock

• As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Book

• I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.

  

  Jessa Gamble
  • People
  • Good
  • Sleep

• Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Comedy
  • Stupid
  • Witty

• I do have an incredible relationship with my parents, and my mom, who I go to for absolutely everything, thank the lord. If I didn't, I don't know what I would do. But I guess, I think we all have those moments where we feel like we're so alone and have no one to go to.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Relationship

• The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Father

• Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

  

  Agnes Denes
  • Thinking
  • Underpinnings
  • Understructure