Making Quotes
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I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.
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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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We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
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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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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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It's all about making the other person feel good.
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Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.
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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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If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
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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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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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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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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.
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There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.
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If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something human-made with materials; that is, it is made of us. Art is life. And yet it is distinct from 'life.' Art is life's counterpoint. We make it, and in that making, art is pointedly not life. It is just made of us.
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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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Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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When I see something I end up making a song about it and that's the way it is. There have been plenty of times when I've been in the studio and they were like, "Hey, why don't you make a song about such and such," and I just can't. I've gotta have it in my heart.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
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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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Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.
