“I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.” ShouldBelieveCharacterStoriesMightI BelieveNovelEffectsDevelopmentInvolvedCapableI Believe InComplicatedNewspapersPlotPassagesGood StoryPassage Of Time Author:John Irving
“I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the most free-spirited, fun-loving kind of guy.” KindLittlesGuyFunBitsLittle BitComplicatedSpiritedFun Loving Author:Jason Bateman
“What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.” PeopleUsedResearchLibraryComplicatedUsed To BeEtcComplicated Relationship Author:Dermot Mulroney
“Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.” PeopleWantCareComplicatedHealth CareExpensiveSparks Author:William J. Clinton
“My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.” SometimesCertainSimplicityComplicatedCrave Author:Kenny Chesney
“The purpose of life is to be happy. I don't think it's any more complicated than that. It's also important not to interfere with anybody else's right to do the same. We just need to practice that. It's the Golden Rule.” ThinkingNeedsImportantLife IsPurposePracticeComplicatedGoldenPurpose Of LifeInterfereGolden Rule Author:Wayne Dyer
“I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.” ThinkingMatterPlayMotherThreeRolesNo Matter WhatComplicatedBeing A MotherGreat MotherBad Mother Author:Eva Mendes
“I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.” IfsWritingWishRolesTalentComplicatedDepartment Author:Eva Mendes
“It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.” TryingDifferentRolesNiceLowsComplicatedBudgetsCourageousDaringReally Nice Author:Stellan Skarsgard
“I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.” HumansUnderstandingAbilityWorryImpossibleStagePureCompetitionNotionTrackComplicatedComplexityExploitsPhysiologyAccentuateComplexity Of Human Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.” LongStillsMomentsCultureLostLeftSituationStrangerComplicatedStorytellingBridgesOther Cultures Author:Paulo Coelho
“As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.” TwoFilmCoursesSoundNaturalCareersMediaComplicatedConnectedJournalismDocumentariesProgressionSound And Music Author:Nancy Kates
“I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.” YearsBelieveHumansStillsUniverseUnderstandingChristTeachingConditionsComplicatedBillionsI RealizedObjectivesHuman ConditionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Moby
“I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.” ThinkingWorldGovernmentImpactComplicatedImpact On The World Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.” FirstsKindPersonsHardWholeCharacterStoriesShowsAbleFilmReadingOpportunityFictionNovelTvsComplexesComplicatedInternalsTv ShowsFirst Person Author:Joe Meno
“[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” MenWellsChildrenSoulEndsPlayGamesSimpleAnswersPerfectDoubtMankindMastersShotsGolfRoundsComplicatedIntellectDisasterTriumphUnexpectedConcentrationPreciseUnpredictablePuzzlesRelaxationGrown ManTantalizing Author:Arnold Palmer
“This product that was on TV was available for four easy payments of $19.95. I would like a product that was available for three easy payments and one complicated payment. We can't tell you which payment it is, but one of these payments is going to be hard. The mailman will get shot, the envelope will not seal, the stamp will be in the wrong denomination. The final payment must be made in wampum.” MadeHardHumorFunnyThreeEasyFourTvsProductsShotsFinalsAvailableComplicatedStampsPaymentSealsEnvelopesDenominationsMailman Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Only men who have worn a ski suit understand how complicated it is for a woman to go to the bathroom when she's wearing a jumpsuit.” MenHumorFunnyComplicatedSuitsWornBathroomSkisJumpsuits Author:Rita Rudner
“Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I'm not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, 'yeah, it's good!' Some day.” ThinkingWould BePayFunctionYeahComplicated Author:Ben Affleck
“We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.” NeedsBeautifulSimplePureIntellectualComplicatedCategoriesChildlike Author:Rob Bell
“An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.” IfsDoeBlackSpaceEventsReturnSolutionsComplicatedHolesHorizonElectricityBendingBlack HoleEvent HorizonMagnetismElectricity And Magnetism Author:Michio Kaku
“When I look at my audience, I can tell better who's in the crowd and the kind of joke I shouldn't do. It's just complicated. I guess I sift through to make sure these jokes are a little different with not such a harsh edge to them. That's pretty much how I handle the crowd.” LooksKindLittlesI CanDifferentAudienceJokesEdgesCrowdsComplicatedHandleHarsh Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.” WinningEffectsDependsArgumentComplicatedSophisticatedEfficiencyFree MarketDemonstrationHave ConfidenceMarket Efficiency Author:Milton Friedman
“How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.” MeanHumorFunnyLinesDrawsComplicatedIceCreamFlavorIce CreamPenniesBananasChunksGoldfishFudgeCaramelCheddar Author:Marc Maron
“What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.” FeelingsClearFeminismMarriedComplicatedClarityFog Author:Vivian Gornick
“The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.” PeopleWorldTryingFightingEasyAnswersComplicatedRobinsEasy Answers Author:Marjane Satrapi
“But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.” PeopleWantCertainRealizingViolenceNewsComplicatedRealize Things Author:Marjane Satrapi
“My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.” LiteratureReligiousComplicatedTrue ReligionNon ReligiousReligious Family Author:Orhan Pamuk
“My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.” KnowsMenWayStillsHumorBigsFunnyFoundFatherBlackHugeDadMy DadComplicatedRacistSantaSanta ClausLet DownGood Father Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.” IfsComplicatedSentences Author:Sam Altman
“You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.” KnowsNeedsFactsStructureComplicatedManagersEmployee Author:Sam Altman
“I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.” PeopleFeelsKindWholeAgeFeltSidesMy OwnGenerationsStreetsResponsibleComplicatedConnectedShockVietnamBeing ThereMy GenerationPilgrimageEmpatheticComplicated RelationshipHanoi Author:Anne Waldman
“Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation.” PeopleThinkingIdeasWarCertainAbilityConversationBeatsComplicatedRidiculousProgressiveUpbringingAffinity Author:Anne Waldman
“I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be.” IfsWantFeelsHumansPersonsCharacterProblemAbleHuman BeingsMysteryScientistComplicatedSolveActressesBrilliantProblem Solvers Author:Viola Davis
“You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.” HumansHappensLife IsEasyAnimalToo MuchDevelopmentEatingSurvivalCapacityIncrediblesComplicatedHuman LifeComparisonGiftedReplicationNothing Is Easy Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.” FeelsFactsSeemsCreaturesComplicatedConfusedMonstrous Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.” ThinkingWayStillsHappensTodayStruggleRacismImpactComplicated Author:Angela Davis
“Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.” StillsWholeProblemTodayFilmUsedCoursesTechnologyPiecesEasierAdvantageComplicatedExpensiveDigitalEditorsEditingFixingDigital TechnologyCelluloid Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“If you start thinking about stats it can get too complicated and you just have to go out there and play your game.” IfsThinkingPlayGamesComplicated Author:Rafael van der Vaart
“The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory."” StillsReasonLife IsDifficultVoiceBusinessComplicatedChiefsExecutivesOfficersDeniedFoundingInner VoiceVisaChief Executives Book:Birth of the Chaordic Age Source: Birth of the Chaordic Age
“It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.” ImportantWould BeAbleOpportunityRolesWonderfulComplicatedNarrativeAwardsCounterparts Author:Viola Davis
“Technology doesn't have to be difficult to use or complicated. I feel technology is something that's there to make your life easier not more difficult.” FeelsUseDifficultTechnologyEasierComplicated Author:Anousheh Ansari
“Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.” KnowsWritingStoriesNovelLike YouFingersComplicatedSnaps Author:Reif Larsen
“I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.” IfsDoneRunningRaceTeamInvolvedNegativePressureStrategyComplicatedBritishTechniqueDistractionPeterPsychologistCyclingNegative Thoughts Author:Chris Hoy
“The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted.” WorldSecretHonestGuiltComplicatedReactionsIntenseOutside WorldSad ThingsHonest With Yourself Author:James Scott
“PhotoShop is a program I use all the time with my 2D stuff. And that's an extraordinary program - you really can do anything there, and I've never hit my head on the ceiling. The 3D stuff is incredibly complicated, monstrously complicated, but for the things that I want to do, I've found very simple and interesting ways, I hope, of making images without getting tied up too much in the maps and technicalities.” WayWantUseFoundStuffCan DoSimpleInterestingToo MuchProgramExtraordinaryComplicatedMapsTiedCeilingsTied UpInteresting WaysPhotoshopTechnicalities Author:Dave McKean
“One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple.” PeopleTryingNightSimpleWeekKeysCoupleCookingComplicatedKitchenEmbarrassedKey Things Author:William Katt
“Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.” LooksDoeMadeDifferentHomeStuffColorNeededProjectsWeakTheaterConstantComplicatedScreensVersionsDigitalGet RealPumps Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had so many studies with big fancy words where you could dissect a movie and make charts of all of the characters' complicated inner relations and themes and what does this mean? And it's overwhelming as a student. It's great for a student, but as a writer, it's paralyzing.” WritingMeanDoeCharacterBigsSchoolRememberFilmStudyStudentsConsciousRelationComplicatedFancyThemeOverwhelmingFilm School Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.” PeopleIfsShouldImportantComplicatedImpulse Author:Woody Allen