Milton Glaser Quotes

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Milton Glaser

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• I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Serious

• I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Independent

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Question
  • Independent

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • Interesting

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Priority

• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Independent
  • Living

• I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the people that we wanted to model ourselves after. Throwing on the Cartier frames, the army-style fatigue jackets.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Up
  • Style

• I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Good
  • Support
  • Friend

• I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Alone
  • Independent
  • Being

• I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Think
  • Working
  • Thrive

• The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Financial
  • Irish
  • Lion

• There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Water
  • Woman

• In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Business
  • Society

• I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Parents
  • Proud

• The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Independent
  • Designer
  • Persistence