Jonathan Mannion Quotes

As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.

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• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Players
  • Other

• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Language

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Modeling

• Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Pretty

• I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • American
  • America

• What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Movie

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Pressure

• Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Something
  • Say
  • Will

• There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Value

• I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Picture
  • Son

• Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.

  

  Lynn Anderson
  • Up
  • True
  • Change

• 'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dog
  • Lips
  • Bark

• The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Silent
  • Ridiculous
  • Queen

• Technically, I could have said “journalist” or “writer.” However, admitting to these professions is like uttering a special secret password to Travel Hell. No one wants journalists or writers in their country because they have a habit of writing things, and sometimes these things are even true.

  

  Adam Fletcher
  • Habit
  • Writer
  • Journalist

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Artist
  • Move
  • Photographer