Bryan Kest Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Garry Kasparov -
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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Everything's really good right now. I think there's potential this weekend to pick up some more. Another 10 fish this season wouldn't surprise me.
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I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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Just because we can think does not mean we are separate from everything.
