William Drenttel Quotes

Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

William Drenttel

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• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
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• I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

  

  Laura Haddock
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• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
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• I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• Going 3-13 is not acceptable.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

  

  Olly Murs
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• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
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• But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Up
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• During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Mysterious

• I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Life
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• I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.

  

  Mary Beth Whitehead
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Weird

• The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
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  • Together
  • Technology

• It's always challenging to go into a role.

  

  Jay Hernandez

• When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

  

  Dean Norris
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• Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema
  • People

• I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
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• You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.

  

  John O. Brennan
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  • World
  • American

• One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Home
  • Hope
  • West

• Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

  

  Freeman Thomas
  • Good
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  • Honesty

• I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Star

• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  

  William Drenttel
  • Vision
  • Design
  • Patience