Nicholas Thorburn Quotes

I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.

Nicholas Thorburn

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• Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Film
  • Television

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • I Wish

• No man may make another free.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • May
  • Man
  • Free

• Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Present
  • Moment

• Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Food
  • Honor

• Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • World
  • Rest
  • Australia

• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Like
  • Private
  • Meddle

• More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Understand
  • China
  • Ambassador

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Up
  • Missing
  • Nothing

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Art

• You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.

  

  Irene Dunne

• But the old man had provided his kids with one priceless gift: He’d encouraged them to read, and he didn’t bother too much about the content, subscribing to the theory that good books ultimately speak for themselves.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • Kids

• There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Character
  • Movie

• A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Music
  • Free
  • Value

• Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

  

  Craig Hatkoff
  • People
  • Music
  • Powerful

• I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.

  

  Nicholas Thorburn
  • Music
  • Challenge
  • Supply