Rob Thomas Quotes

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movie

• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Light

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Work
  • Moment
  • Goodness

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Lifetime

• I'm confident, motivated.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Motivated
  • Confident

• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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  • American
  • Day

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Health

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
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• I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

  

  Walter Gropius
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  • Great
  • Art

• There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Done
  • Job
  • America

• I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Future
  • Science

• In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Movie
  • Audience
  • Protagonist

• For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Attitude
  • Smart

• The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.

  

  Jesse James Garrett
  • Work
  • May
  • Book

• I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• As an artist, I am for non-film music as well. I want that to shine as much as Bollywood.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Music
  • Shine

• Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
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