Nicolas Provost Quotes

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, making a feature was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

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• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Game
  • Turn

• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • People
  • Art
  • Acting

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fun
  • Career
  • College

• I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Think
  • Me
  • Water

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • See
  • Slave

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Down

• I want to win championships.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Win
  • Championships

• Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Might

• We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Need

• We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • History
  • Look
  • Club

• When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Up
  • Chance

• Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Greatness
  • Nurse
  • Difficulty

• My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my dad's such a character at the dinner table.

  

  Hayes MacArthur
  • Mom
  • Chicago
  • Singer

• On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Creative
  • Sound
  • Carry

• I'm learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don't have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.

  

  Judith Flanders
  • Safety
  • Murder
  • 19th-Century

• Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, making a feature was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

  

  Nicolas Provost
  • Sound
  • Image
  • Sculpting