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“Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.”

People Writing Self Moving Goal Chance Focus Havens Conscious Increase Plot Ironic Self Conscious Characterization Pacing

Author:Christopher Rice

“Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.”

Ifs World Want Years I Can Book Together Special Ghost Rays Rereading Ghost World

Author:Daniel Clowes

“Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.”

Ifs Firsts Stories Scene

Author:Gus Van Sant

“Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.”

Past Morning Week Reflection Sat Cartoon My Past

Author:Gary Larson

“Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.”

Two Shows Fronts Beer Shirts Lit Matthew Shirt Off

Author:Ian Astbury

“Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.”

Thinking Knows Reason

Author:Leona Lewis

“Usually when I start to work and to prepare the movie, some inspirations, different kind of human beings, it can be someone I know, someone I don't, a girl, a boy. So usually when I start, quite right away, some inspirations come.”

Knows Humans Kind Different Inspiration Girl Human Beings Boys Different Kinds

Author:Marion Cotillard

“Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.”

Hurt Sticks Friendly Hockey Hurt Feelings Hockey Sticks

Author:Stan Mikita

“Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.”

Writing Trying Kind Stuff Bob Favourite Dylan Reeds Lyricists

Author:Andrew VanWyngarden

“Usually when I'm in the van or if there's downtime, I'll just mess around in Garage Band and work out melodies or ideas I've had in my head. There was a period where I creatively plateaued and wasn't writing at all. But I have been creatively a bit more inspired lately - it has everything to do with moving and being in motion.”

Writing Moving Inspired Work Out Mess Melody Garage

Author:Sarah Jaffe

“Usually when I'm mad, I'd rather listen to angry music than soothing music - more heavy metal, some Metallica or something.”

Angry Mad Heavy Metals Soothing Heavy Metal Metallica

Author:Matt Kenseth

“Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.”

World Way Mind Firsts Stories Interesting Audience Stage Scene Visuals Most Interesting More To Life Interesting Ways

Author:Wes Anderson

“Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.”

Stuff Chance Space Creative Boots Chill Wild Things Creative Space

Author:Bootsy Collins

“Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room. In my imagination when I'm really focused I go into that white room and all that's there is me, my painting, and my tools. There's no distraction. When I'm really concentrated I like to have it silent but when I'm doing something that doesn't have to be necessarily perfect, I can just go for it.”

Imagination Perfect Focus Painting Silent Focused Distraction My Imagination

Author:Autumn de Forest

“Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.”

Trying Character

Author:Denise Mina

“Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.”

Knows Writing Kind Consciousness Style Streams Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Usually when I'm writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink. Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.”

Writing Trying Long Song

Author:Billy Joel

“Usually when Obama says, 'Let me be clear,' he's about to get into some very unclear sh*t.”

Clear Let Me Unclear

Author:Jon Stewart

“Usually, when one is making the least sense, he is actually making the most sense.”

Life Thoughts Reflections

Author:Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Source: Peter

“Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.”

Use Painting Photograph Boring Painter Copies

Author:Duane Michals

“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”

People Motivational Change Sadness Conditions Cry Sad Anger Angry Black History Anger Management Feeling Sad Sad Life Sadness Of Life Sadness And Anger

Author:Malcolm X

“Usually, when people get an idea, they are eager to start acting immediately, immerse themselves in the process without creating a system of actions, without being knowledgeable of the matter, without analyzing and estimating everything beforehand”

People Matter Purpose Process Knowledge Calling Analysis Actions Create Idea System Knowledgeable Eager Immediately Immerse

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called “Hatha-Yoga”. In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person. By origin, Yoga has mainly five forms: 1. Raja Yoga - The realization of divinity through intense meditation 2. Karma Yoga – The realization of divine bliss through your own daily activities and duties 3. Hatha Yoga – The realization of divine well-being through various physical exercises 4. Jyana Yoga – The realization of inexplicable bliss in the pursuit of knowledge 5. Bhakti Yoga – The realization of ecstasy through love and devotion for your Personal God The purpose of all Yogas is to set your consciousness lose into the vast domain of the unknown, where your brain circuits simulate various fascinating mental states that are usually unimaginable and unattainable in your everyday consciousness. But the whole yoga thing has nothing to do with God or something of that sort. It is all about various states of the human mind.”

Inspirational Meditation Yoga Yoga Inspiration Neurotheology Yoga Philosophy Yoga Quotes Yoga Sutra Patanjali

Author:Abhijit Naskar

Source: Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality

“Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.”

People Way Feelings Hate Mixed Feelings

Author:Matthew Specktor

“Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.”

Philosophy Economics

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Hocus Pocus

“Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.”

Way Believe Attitude Particular Angle Pointing

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.”

Wells Doe Heard Team Crowds Tigers Opposing Stadiums Lsu

Author:Mark Richt

“Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have.”

Our Lives Ache

Author:Rich Mullins

“Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.”

Ifs Ideas Accepting Cases Compare Something New

Author:Nhat Hanh

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“Usually when we lose a game is because we turn the ball over or not play well enough and usually it is the turnover thing. We have to take care of the ball. It is starts with me and not turning it over.”

Wells Enough Play Care Turns Games Loses Balls Take Care Turnover

Author:Ben Roethlisberger

“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”

Should Two Reason Asks Race College Degrees Radical Punk Timing Rats Get Ahead College Education Rat Race

Author:Abbie Hoffman

Source: THE

“Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.”

Stills Shows Three Hurt Middle Minutes Pressure Stomach

Author:Mark Oliver Everett

“Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.”

Sometimes Done Engineers

Author:Keith Rabois

“Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.”

Open Mindedness Budhism

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.”

Sometimes Together Directors Meetings Working Together

Author:Willem Dafoe

“Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.”

Want Play Lines Focus Player Team Hockey One Line Pittsburgh Mario

Author:Patrick Roy

“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.”

Feels Energy Women Female Structure Males Caged Metallic

Author:Bjork

“Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.”

Firsts Play Character Stories Design Huge Scripts Casting Components Design Work

Author:Alexandra Byrne

“Usually when you talk to people, they don't want to talk; they want to dominate. Most of the time, they don't want to have a conversation; they want to place judgment on your soul...and you can use this to your ADVANTAGE. So the next time someone picks a fight with you, ask them a question no longer than 8 words. Emotional people LOVE answering questions. And it's by their answers ye shall truly know them. And it's by their answers that ye shall discover where their pressure points are. And at the perfect time...you'll ask the final question. Now, you might not get anywhere, but the audience will feel it.”

Love War Rome Social Psychology Athena Aphrodite Hera Trojan War Mythology India Talking Myths

Author:Michael Jagdeo

“Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.”

Done Film Watches Nails Biting

Author:Denis Leary

“Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.”

Thinking Character

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Usually when you're playing with other people in not such a reverberant room, you have to be quick on your feet and think about stuff really quickly. But inside the cistern, it was almost like I was at home on my computer arranging and taking time thinking about the next step, the next note. Instead, the room was my collaborator. I could hear the note and sit there and think. I could be arranging as I was going in real time, which was fascinating.”

People Thinking Real Home Computer Take Time

Author:Jherek Bischoff

“Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.”

Feels Home Certain Fighting Pride Amount Scene Wounds Back Home Bruises

Author:Danny Huston

“Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.”

Ifs Scared Not Afraid

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Usually with a couple of these shots the word ‘Goodnight’ would show up on their forehead, but he was still on his feet, but backed up and then I battered him with a flurry of combinations: right, left, right, right, right and a sweet right hand and he went down. For good measure, I booted him in the head and turned around and walked fast in to the pub away from the scene.”

Violence In Society Richy Horsley Street Fighting

Author:Stephen Richards

Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.”

Writing Character Stories Film Film Writing

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.”

Business Financing

Author:Don Bluth

“Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Hands Happens Fighting Audience Western Broke Genre Sequence Good Fight

Author:Ang Lee

“Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.”

Men Feels Mean Has Beens Ends Joy Realizing Mankind Civilization Authority Solutions Ultimate Harmony Fellows Rage Arguing Urges Traffic Fellow Man Peace And Harmony Freeways

Author:Criss Jami

“Usually women are the lynchpins of the family. They carry the brunt of the work at home and of being mothers and of taking care of the children. Not always. I have a wonderful husband, who is a great father and has helped tremendously at home. And I think that men are getting in touch and I think that the role that they have is so important, to be a good father and have a good career and be a good husband. But I think that as more and more women go into the workforce, you have to have more help at home and it becomes more of a sharing of responsibilities.”

Thinking Men Children Important Helping Home Care Mother Father Responsibility Wonderful Husband Being A Mother Good Father Good Husband

Author:Carolyn Maloney

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