Brent Iverson Quotes

There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.

Brent Iverson

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• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

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• I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

  

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• There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

  

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• To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

  

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

  

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• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

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• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  

  Felicia Day
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• Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.

  

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• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

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• I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

  

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• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

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• You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.

  

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• I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

  

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• There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.

  

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• God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

  

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• Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.

  

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• When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'.

  

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• I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.

  

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• There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.

  

  Brent Iverson
  • Focus
  • Design
  • Looks