“If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.” IfsKnowsImportantHardPlayChoicesChanceOriginalsArbitrary Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007 Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.” GivingChildrenBeautifulParentRealizingChanceWonderOriginalsDrivingCommonplaceDepriving Book:My life Source: My life
“I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.” WantPersonsMadeI CanDifferentStuffChanceDecisionSubjectsInformationComfortProjectsOriginalsZoneDifferent ThingsComfort Zone Author:Brian Grazer
“It's very, very rare you find something really original and also because a lot of original stuff, most of the time has no chance, because it's so expensive to make something famous or put it in people's head that it's the one to see, it's like awareness has to be almost like at 80% or 90% if you make an expensive summer movie and that's very hard to do with anything an the White House naturally is in itself some sort of a trademark.” PeopleIfsHardHouseStuffChanceWhiteAwarenessSummerOriginalsExpensiveWhite HouseTrademarks Author:Roland Emmerich
“The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!” WorldI CanCharacterStoriesThreeNextWaitingChanceFantasyGoneAdventureThousandTenOriginalsCloudsPlotSurprisingDiverseEngagingThrilling Author:N.K. Jemisin
“Maybe one way I am original is that at heart I really am a classical actor. I haven't had my chance yet in the commercial world to show that. Movies aren't really made about classical people so much any more.” PeopleWorldWayHeartMadeShowsActorsChanceHavensOriginalsOne Way Author:Christopher Reeve
“Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.” ChanceOriginalsHip HopCrowdsHipsHopsStanding OutMottoDjsFlashyStand Out From The Crowd Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.” PeopleKindDifferentFilmBitsChanceAudienceTasksOriginalsHungryFinancing Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!” MenBelieveDoeMadeWholeChanceDestinyHappenedHe ManLoversMetsMen And WomenOriginalsAngryReformDividedRighteousAmazing ThingsMost Amazing Author:Fay Weldon