“Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.” ArtArtistTalkingSpecialElementsAddMeetingsPossessionTreasureContemporaryCollectingCollectorsIrreplaceableContemporary Art Author:Ernest West Basden
“Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.” ArtIdeasBlackTalkingRolesRightsIdentityRevolutionElementsProductionsResistanceCivil RightsAggressiveAffirmationRefusalAssertionSuccessorsJamaicaBlack Art Author:Mark McMorris
“I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.” StillsEnjoyTalkingElementsExcitedListenersMicrophones Author:Bob Edwards
“I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.” KnowsWellsPlayFilmHouseStrongFunTalkingNew YorkBrotherGrewBandElementsGrew UpMusicianSittingHornsDrummerSoundtracks Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers
“The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.” MenStoriesChallengesTalkingStruggleElementsRainResolutionNbaTransactionsNew BusinessBusiness Relationship Author:Peter Guber
“I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.” PeopleThinkingAbleUnderstandingTalkingDemocracyCenturyFiguresElements20th CenturyElevating Author:Judy Woodruff
“I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.” IfsWritingSometimesLastsTalkingElementsMirrorsLast TimeConfrontation Author:Angel Olsen
“I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.” ThinkingTalkingRocksFitElementsJazzNoise Author:Van Morrison
“It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.” WorldFeelingsSeemsFilmSimpleTalkingMysteryElementsOrdinaryThirdsUniversalIrrationalOrdinary World Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic
“I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.” KindTalkingTeamFieldsPositionElementsEastInstructionCoastVariablesEast Coast Author:Bill Parcells