Making Quotes
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If we’re not constantly evaluating whether what we’re doing is actually making a difference, then we will fail. Obviously a lot of the tactics have been disruptive. People have blocked highways. In some cities they’ve blocked subways. … I think the highway blocking is fair game. In terms of some of the other stuff, I think most of the time it’s ill-conceived, even if well-meaning. … If you’re walking down the street, and you were to break a car window, you don’t even know who’s car it is, it could be someone who supports you.
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I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.
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The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.
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He wasn't very good and he had on African pants, so the kids were making fun of him and killing him. But three months later, he was killing them.
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It's all about making the other person feel good.
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I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.
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We have been swamped by a tsunami of new technologies, without pausing to consider whether they are good or bad, helpful or hurtful. Are they making us more thoughtful, more articulate, more loving?
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Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.
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Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside.
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There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.
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In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.
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We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
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Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.
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Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.
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I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.
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I know that’s probably not always true, but I operate on the principle that if it sounds great when you’re just playing it on the piano or guitar and singing it, then making it into a stylistic statement is just not a problem. It’s just going to be a matter of time, turning the crank and getting an arrangement out of the song.
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The most clear way to decide the actor is to watch them doing stuff during their downtime. When they do something that's making both of you laugh, you see if there's a character or situation that could be written into.
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We live in an age of micro aggressions where people are deemed racist or sexist of phobic for making one wrong tweet.
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The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let the music make the money, not the other way around. We have flipped the model to make the artistry be at the forefront of everything we do. Music makes the business and that's what makes it work.
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Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.
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I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.
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I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.
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Once you finish the script, it's no longer yours; it's the other people making it, which sometimes can be hard.
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Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport [auto racing] more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.
