Anthony McCarten Quotes
I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.
Quotes to Explore
-
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
-
I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
-
As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
-
We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
-
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
-
I got to write most of everything I said.
-
Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
-
Self-doubt kills talent.
-
I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
-
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
-
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
-
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
-
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
-
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
-
I am from Karnal, India.
-
In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
-
It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
-
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
-
That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.
-
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
-
Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.
-
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
-
I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.
