Making Quotes

• I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

  

  Issey Miyake
  • World
  • Real
  • Clothing

• Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

  

  Joseph J. Ellis
  • Men
  • History
  • Making

• You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.

  

  Daniel Simon
  • Real
  • Difference
  • Warrior

• By the time executives get to high levels, they are good at making others feel confident in their judgment, even if there's no strong basis for the judgment.

  

  Gary A. Klein
  • Judgment
  • Confident
  • Executives

• A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

  

  William Magee
  • Mistake
  • Anything
  • Making

• We released 'The Interview' through a variety of platforms, and we continue to look for other distribution options. Throughout this whole process, we never stopped - not for a single moment - trying to secure a broad release. Our studio takes great pride in continuing to grow the release of this movie and making it a success.

  

  Michael Lynton
  • Pride
  • Continue
  • Interview

• Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

  

  Barbara Katz Rothman
  • Birth
  • Making
  • Babies

• We were jigsawed, meant to fit together, making a whole picture.

  

  Alix Ohlin
  • Picture
  • Making
  • Jigsawed

• People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

  

  Ridley Scott
  • Attention
  • Radio
  • Producing

• Don’t turn decision making over to an army of consultants.

  

  Albert J. Dunlap
  • Decision
  • Making
  • Consultant

• My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

  

  Dave Malloy
  • Writing
  • Approach
  • Wanting

• Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

  

  Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Important
  • Unknown
  • Making

• If something's important to you, you make time for it.

  

  Mia Maestro
  • Time
  • Important
  • Making

• “Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.”

  

  Hugh Lofting
  • Moment
  • Decisions
  • Making

• I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!

  

  Ryan North
  • Material
  • Million
  • Cartoonists

• I want to be someone making music/with my coming.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Music
  • Making
  • Coming

• I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life doing this, I've trained myself to do the opposite of what's human nature, and that is to recoil from things I don't like.

  

  Arthur Jafa
  • Practice
  • Things
  • Making

• All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Beauty
  • Making
  • Opposites

• I like being able to bounce between writing movies for people like Kevin Sorbo to making very personal films like orange county hardcore sinister to making a movie like Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates, which is made for the pure pleasure of getting together with creative people and making a movie. Alex Cox would be proud.

  

  Evan Jacobs
  • Proud
  • Movies
  • Pleasure

• My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Television
  • Making
  • Priorities

• And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Really
  • Making
  • Discovered

• Like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Games
  • Playing
  • Rules

• My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.

  

  Melissa Rivers
  • People
  • Mother
  • Difficult

• Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • People
  • Reason
  • Economic

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