David Longstreth Quotes

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

David Longstreth

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Political
  • Practice

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Good
  • Emotional

• The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Police
  • Stuff
  • Academy

• When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Dad

• Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Political
  • Way
  • Explore

• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Doing
  • Everything
  • Knowing

• A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Happy
  • Face

• What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

  

  Gary Owens
  • People
  • You
  • Play

• You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Giving

• I'm really bothered by questions of humanity, questions of war, questions of slavery.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Slavery

• Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Confidence

• I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

  

  John Travolta
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • Looks

• Until we care more about what God thinks than what other people think we are never truly free

  

  Christine Caine
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Care

• Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Come

• When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Sometimes