Erol Alkan Quotes

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

Erol Alkan

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• Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Country
  • Political

• Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Information
  • Leaving
  • Accept

• I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Start

• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Positive

• We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Generation
  • Evolution
  • Plans

• I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Great
  • America
  • Destruction

• Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Power
  • Girl

• I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Believe
  • Lazy

• The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

  

  Marc Faber

• I go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass.

  

  Andrea Corr

• I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Wish
  • Couple

• Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

  

  Brian Williams
  • People
  • Light

• We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.

  

  David Whyte
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

  

  Pete Conrad
  • Work
  • Space

• Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Bad

• What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

  

  John Redwood
  • Study

• Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Magic

• My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • World
  • Music
  • Real

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Music
  • Instinct
  • Follow