Ken Hill Quotes

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

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• I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Vanity

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Body
  • Yourself

• I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Vision
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

  

  Lara Logan
  • People
  • Think
  • Death

• We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • World
  • Believe
  • Compassion

• I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Live
  • Country
  • Culture

• I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Always
  • Musician

• A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Literature
  • Process
  • Script

• In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Children
  • Home
  • Nice

• I've been stalked.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Been

• The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Truth
  • Water
  • Truth Is

• Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • America
  • Best
  • Agriculture

• The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Scent
  • Deer

• Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Money
  • America
  • Hungry

• Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Picture

• If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Fall

• Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.

  

  Lela Loren
  • True
  • Death
  • Unknown

• The night games here have always been special occasions and with Denver it certainly would be.

  

  Bob Moore
  • Games
  • Occasions

• Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

  

  Ken Hill