“I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.” DifferentWantedMy OwnViewsDestinyEntrepreneurAngleMicrosoftDifferent Angles Author:Naveen Jain
“But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.” PeopleTryingInterestingHeardStrangeJokesAngleMost Interesting Author:Godfrey
“[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.” MomentsVisionForeverConditionsParticularPhotographFixedAngle Author:Thomas Demand
“...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.” LyingLiteraturePaintingPhotographyAngleSelected Author:Edmundo Desnoes
“I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part.... I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.” WayTryingUseMovingStreetsCamerasDetailsCrowdsImpressionOpeningMy WayPreservesAngleFlexibleComposingDynamicsOpening UpFragmentedTripods Author:Beat Streuli
“Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor. Probably even more so than the Brazilian flavor, there's an African, South African and West African influence and on a couple of other tracks there's some Latin flavor and there's some Indian tables on one track, all centered around my jazz guitar and acoustic guitars, and very much a Lee Ritenour sound.” WorldWellsHeartCountrySoundInfluenceCoupleMy HeartMirrorsTablesJazzWestSouthGuitarDearTrackAlbumsSmokeIndianParksLatinSouth AfricaAngleFlavorAcousticsWorld MusicAcoustic Guitar Author:Lee Ritenour
“I just feel like I aint never did nothing foul in the game. My ghetto report card has always been straight A's across the board. So I said let me go ahead and name this "My Ghetto Report Card," and I'm touching down on all 4 angles of the game you smell me? I'm touching it from all basis. The album aint banana's, it's coconuts.” FeelsSaidGamesNamesLet MeBasesAlbumsSmellCardsBoardsReportsTouchingAngleFoulGhettoBananasLet Me GoCoconutsReport Cards Author:E-40
“I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.” FeelsLooksSaidWarWantedMovingSubjectsStudentsTypeReflectionShotsSorryPhotographerAirplaneAngleHutsObeseCranes Author:Peter Menzel
“A basketball diameter is 10 inches and a rim is 18 inches so I made a 14-inch rim I put in to practice on. Few people could do that because it was so frustrating that it drove everyone but me nuts. That led to me shooting very high, which basic physics tells you is the best angle - the hole is bigger from above than from the side.” PeopleMadeSidesPracticeBasketballBiggerPhysicsHolesShootingNutsInchesAngleFrustratingRims Author:Dolph Schayes
“I am very determined when it comes to my music, and I grew up just loving those singers who had that urban sort of feeling. So when it came down to making my record, I wanted to have that as well. ForeFront was really good about letting me go in that direction and then of course adding the more pop sounds. I feel very fortunate that I got to explore some unique and creative angles musically.” FeelsWellsFeelingsWantedCoursesSoundCreativeRecordsGrewGrew UpUniquePopsDeterminedSingersFortunateUrbanAngle Author:Stacie Orrico
“Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?” KnowsMayWholeFactsIgnorancePropertyCirclesDefinedAngleInteriorsSympatheticExteriorParallelogram Author:Lewis Carroll
“I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.” ThinkingYearsFirstsLooksFilmGuyBlackWhiteCareersDoubtDegreesBenefitsBallsMalesClockShirtsHatsProvenAngleBlack WomenT ShirtCompetentIncompetentWoodyTrajectoryClipBenefit Of The DoubtThermal Author:Dee Rees
“I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.” BodyMalesAngleSkisRacers Author:Lindsey Vonn
“You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.” IfsLooksFailingPreparedBe PreparedAngle Author:Benjamin Franklin
“I don't think kids should think their lives have to be perfect or have a filter or the best angle or anything like that. I think it's important to see that everybody is human and everyone has their ups and downs.” ThinkingShouldHumansImportantKidsPerfectAngleUps & DownsFilters Author:Tyler Oakley
“I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.” WritingMindMadeFacesSongRealizingOpinionWrittenHappenedMissingExampleProjectsNewsFollowingDeeperNewspapersParisThrownYour FaceAngleInsignificantAvoidedNuanceInsignificant ThingsNews Reporting Author:Jens Lekman
“You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.” PeopleWorldHappensCoupleUniqueGainsLondonBreakfastFollowersAngle Author:Kevin Systrom
“It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.” WritingWhiteRaceNovelAssumptionAngleAmerican WriterFalse Assumptions Author:Jess Row
“The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.” IfsMadeMovingMotherChoicesActorsSpaceDecisionLevelsRoomsNumbersExampleMovementCamerasPracticalsTeaKitchenConsiderationPotAngleVersusLiving RoomLarge NumbersSmall SpacesCamera Angles Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.” IfsWarSometimesBigsSeemsMightConflictNewsOddAngleCoverageNews Coverage Author:William Finnegan
“It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But the thing about subjectivity, at least in the classroom, is that you're banking on your professor's subjectivity to be both personal and professional - that he or she has some sense about the world outside the workshop.” IfsWorldDoeIdeasDifferentProcessNovelApproachWorking ItProfessorsClassroomAngleBankingSubjectiveSubjectivityWorkshopsDifferent Angles Author:Tod Goldberg
“Kurt Angle and Randy Orton were great guys to work with. The Undertaker was great to work with, believe it or not, because of the height difference. But overall, my number one choice is Eddie Guerrero, and that's because without him, Rey Mysterio wouldn't be at the level that he was in WWE.” BelieveGuyChoicesDifferencesLevelsNumbersHeightWweAngleUndertakerRandyGreat GuyRandy Orton Author:Oscar Gutierrez
“I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.” WritingLittlesDifferentAngleDifferent Angles Author:Bonnie McKee
“If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.” IfsLooksDifferentGoodnessCrossesAbsolutesAngleSections Author:Catherine Brady
“South Africa is not Cameroon. It's a strong economy. I think they should be the first ones setting an example - improving the legal punishments for those that are involved, reinforcing the borders from every angle, meaning that even the diplomatic plane that lands in South Africa should not have the green light to leave without having the plane inspected. Obviously, those guys are often involved. If I get killed for saying that, so be it. That is the fact. There's way too many important people that are involved that don't want to change.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantShouldFirstsImportantFactsLightGuyStrongEconomyLandExampleInvolvedGreenSouthPunishmentSettingSettingsPlanesBordersSouth AfricaImprovingAngleDiplomaticGreen LightsSetting An ExampleStrong EconomyCameroon Author:Veronika Varekova
“I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic.” WantTryingCharacterClassicAngleIconic Author:Jim Lee
“I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle. I'm not saying there's a wrong way to watch it - maybe that's helpful to him - but to me, you're getting way too caught up in the technical aspects.” PeopleWayI CanDifferentStoriesFilmActorsWatchesExpectationsAspectTheaterCamerasCaughtHelpfulCommentAngleCaught UpNever QuitLightingWrong WayCamera Angles Author:Condola Rashad
“'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you would be communing directly with that information. As soon as you go into film, as soon as there's a camera, and there's an angle, and there's lighting, and there's editing, you're into the adaptation.” Would BeFilmCreativeInformationBalancePicksCamerasOneselfScriptureBiblicalEditingAngleAdaptationLighting Author:Joseph Fiennes
“I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does your life cross over into that character, or what's an angle on this that might challenge the status quo? It's just a great journey as well as an education. You're constantly being educated - it's like I'm back at school and making up for lost time.” TryingFirstsWellsDoeCharacterMightSchoolReadingLostChallengesCommonJourneyFiguresPerceptionCrossesEducatedDiscoveringAngleStatus QuoMaking UpLost TimeI'm BackGreat Journeys Author:Andy Serkis
“Los Angles to me seems to be a little bit more forgiving. They're just as rowdy and they're just as excited but they understand a [botch] happens sometimes, and they're excited to see the show and they just want to have some fun.” WantLittlesSometimesShowsSeemsHappensFunBitsLittle BitForgivingExcitedAngleRowdy Author:Adam Cole
“I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.” PeopleTryingKindIdeasDifferentSometimesCharacterImaginationMalesAll KindsAngleMy ImaginationDifferent PeoplesDifferent Angles Author:Kate Bush
“If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"” IfsThinkingStillsAbleMusicianCommunicateSelfishAngleKnocking Author:Daniel Lopatin
“I like the idea of people getting to know you from different angles and then realizing "That guy is also that guy!" "Oh, he does that!" I really like having a number of different ways to reach people.” PeopleKnowsWayDoeIdeasDifferentGuyRealizingNumbersDifferent WaysAngleThat GuyDifferent Angles Author:Nick Kroll
“I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the fun and banter I had with my friends I remember the most.” ThinkingRememberFunMy FriendsEducationalMuseumsAngleBanterUlster Author:Rory McIlroy
“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.” IfsKnowsWantStillsRealGirlActorsDifferencesBoysCarNeededDirectorsShotsToughTreatedWarriorBridgesMaking A DifferenceFascinatingTallVehicleAngleVersusWildeOliviaUnisex Author:Daniel Simon
“I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.” WantWritingToo MuchJokesToughAngle Author:Allison Silverman
“I don't have a lot of experience to draw from. I had my first kiss when I was 17 or 18. The second time we kissed I got a little excited and I was wearing these really loose shorts that didn't leave much to the imagination. I tried to angle my body away and divert her eyes by saying, "Hey, look at the stars." From then on I wore tighter jeans.” FirstsLooksLittlesBodyEyeStarsImaginationKissingDrawsExcitedHeyHer EyesAngleJeansFirst KissShortsMy First Kiss Author:Jon Heder
“I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.” FeelsLittlesDifferentFeelingsSongSceneAngleDifferent Angles Author:Norah Jones
“Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it. That said, critiquing women's human shells isn't my thang. Though there's probably something funny or interesting to be said about those who do it, and what that comes from.” IfsHumansSaidInterestingShellsAngleTaboo Author:Sarah Silverman
“I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.” ShotsFakeReverseAngleViewers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I haven't been sorting through each and every aspect of this. Here's what I know: Hillary Clinton was an outstanding Secretary of State. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.' Mr. Wallace pressed further on the jeopardy angle, and Mr. Obama responded again: 'I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now what I've also said is that - and she has acknowledged - that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing emails...'"” KnowsBelieveKindSaidStatesAmericaTermSecurityHavensAspectClintonSecretaryAngleNational SecurityEmailOutstandingJeopardyCarelessnessSorting Author:Barack Obama
“Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.” ThinkingHas BeensWholeTurnsSportsBrotherDeterminedNonsenseAngleOlder Brother Author:Chris Matthews
“Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do an hour of political comedy, it might be a little rough, sure. But I think if you're spending 10 minutes or less, and you're talking about - not necessarily [Donald Trump] but his supporters and the media coverage, there's all kinds of angles to explore. It doesn't just have to be simply, "This guy is crazy!" It's more about the idea of that kind of guy rising to the prominence he has, to actually become the Republican candidate.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesIdeasMightHappensPoliticalGuyGirlHoursTalkingComedyCrazyMinutesMediaTrumpRepublicanSpendingAll KindsCandidatesRisingRoughSupporterAngleThis GuyCoverageProminenceMedia Coverage Author:David Cross
“It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.” KnowsWellsHardThreeActorsSceneDirectorsShootingDamnAngle Author:William H. Macy
“If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.” IfsWayFeelingsConversationAngle Author:David Byrne
“I got a unicorn horn on my head once. I said, "Can you really see that on camera?" My producer said, "You can see it from space." I would have to angle my head a certain way so that I didn't look misshapen on camera.” WayLooksSaidCertainSpaceCamerasProducersAngleHornsUnicorn Author:Jancee Dunn
“I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.” IfsDifferentCharacterShotsCome UpAngleDifferent Angles Author:Clint Eastwood
“Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.” TreeAwarenessAppreciationWideForestsAngleLensesLimbsTree Limbs Author:Doc Childre
“From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.” ShouldSocialNaturalEconomicResourcesAgreeDefenseObjectivesConservationAngleNatural ResourcesPublic HealthNational Defense Author:Hugh Hammond Bennett