Agnes Denes Quotes

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

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• 'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Kids
  • motivation

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Education
  • Film
  • Training

• 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

• As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Up
  • Team
  • Trust

• 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

• 'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Trying
  • Psychology

• 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

• I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Done
  • Business
  • Marriage

• Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Solitary

• We got Sally Field onboard in Smokey and the Bandit and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Way
  • Filming
  • Bandit

• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• It's about us going out there trying to impose our game on them and them trying to do the same to us and whoever does best will come out best.

  

  Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
  • Game
  • Best

• Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that God is trying to get my attention to tell me that this is going to end very, very badly if I don't walk away from it.

  

  Mindy McCready
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Reason

• Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

  

  Agnes Denes
  • Thinking
  • Underpinnings
  • Understructure