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“We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.”

Stills Today Pay Issues Rights Battle Equal Abuse Etc Globes Ongoing Parental Equal Pay Suffragettes Parental Rights

Author:Sarah Gavron

“Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.”

People Ifs Trying Turns Challenges Skills Tough Rewards Enormous Frustration Etc New Things Novelty Irritation New Places New Skills

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Energy Engineering started first in IIT Kharagpur in 1983 and mine was the third batch. It was definitely not a popular course. It was basically an amalgamation of nuclear, mechanical, chemical engineering, etc. But I don't think it was a big factor because if we look, most of them joined the IT sectors and not the energy sector.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Looks Bigs Courses Energy Mines Thirds Nuclear Factors Etc Chemicals Engineering Amalgamation Chemical Engineering

Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.”

Ifs May Hands Film Depends Directors Benefits Projects Creating Shots Etc More Time Scratches Spontaneity Lighting Finesse

Author:Roger Deakins

“I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.”

Knows Stories Darkness Know How Rain Etc Vocabulary Lighting Mansions Framing

Author:Martin Scorsese

“All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.”

Ifs Way Matter Character Film Song Situation Written Changed Fit Scene Elements Majors Mood Etc Sequence Discarded Walt

Author:Richard Sherman

“The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).”

“We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.”

Sports Lines Clear Draws Cooking Preserves Etc Sanity Steers Imports Sundance Professional Sports Pbs

Author:Hank Stuever

“I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film.... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.”

People Thinking Way Feels Stills Real Character Stories Film Risk Willing Projects Bigger Shooting Budgets Etc Catering Indie Films

Author:Adam Driver

“When I first started lifting I wanted to be a Super Hero.. But that was my motivation. I was huge into comics at a very young age and nothing made me feel better than helping people. So I wanted to build muscle to be like Superman, Captain America, Wolverine, etc.”

People Feels Firsts Made Helping Age Wanted America Young Motivation Huge Hero Muscles Etc Feel Better Captains Helping People Young Age Lifting Super Hero

Author:Scott Herman

“My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.”

Ifs Soul Together Film Speak Chance Cooking Meat Etc Yield Controlled Pot You Choose Potatoes Carrots

Author:Philippe Claudel

“You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.”

Way Looks Character Sides Draws Etc Angle Profile Animator

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.”

People Way Feels Said Facts Film Decision Views Example Directors Treats Filmmaker Etc Fascinated Deliberate

Author:Chika Anadu

“What the rest of the world knows about Mexico is what they see on films and the bad news they see on TV. We need to make films that are worthy of who we really are as Mexicans. We also need to make cinema that reflects the diversity in the region, so that Americans and Europeans know who Mexicans are, who Salvadorians are, who Cubans are, etc. We need to do it, and all we really need is support because we have the talent.”

Knows World Needs Film Support Talent Tvs Diversity News Worthy Cinema Etc Regions Mexico Bad News Cuban

Author:Kate del Castillo

“China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe. We need to really understand that their destiny and our destiny, Africa's destiny, etc., are all completely tied in. The argument for getting to know your neighbors is very compelling.”

Knows Needs Important America Destiny Mankind Europe Argument Intelligent China Neighbor Discussion Britain Etc Tied Compelling Our Destiny Future Of Mankind

Author:Jamie Hewlett

“I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.”

Thinking Knows Awareness Stupid Pride Proud Stupidity Clever Etc

Book:The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

Source: The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

“Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.”

Men Divine Poet Philosopher Witty Excellent Prophet Etc Melancholy Bees

Author:Aristotle

“The success of a meeting often depends on having the right documents - proofs, artwork, schedules, research charts, etc. - present at the start of the meeting. All too often we arrive like plumbers, leaving our tools behind.”

Behinds Depends Research Tools Meetings Leaving Proof Etc Documents Schedules Artwork Plumber

Book:The Unpublished David Ogilvy

Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy

“...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.”

Firsts Form Ought Soldier Profession Lawyer Productive Etc Commerce Monk

Author:Charles Fourier

“We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.”

People Children Facts Dog Assuming Unity Tendencies Etc Paradox Good People

Author:Richard Posner

“To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.”

“I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.”

Artist Common Jazz Miles Etc No Fear

Author:George Duke

“To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit”

Technology Benefits Paid Significant Managers Obsessed Etc Arrogant Programmers Undisciplined

Book:The C++ Programming Language

Source: The C++ Programming Language

“Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something.”

Ifs Men Should Important States Joy Passion Grief Doubt Poet Rage No Doubt Etc Poetry Is Amusing Detached Amused Utterance Love Passion Byron Irreverent

Author:W. H. Auden

“Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.”

Years Has Beens Would Be Deals Class Students Willing Huge Amount Couple Skills Meetings Who I Am Cards Novelists Etc Faculty Honored Invited Lectures

Author:Neal Stephenson

“I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.”

Aspect Etc

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“We also knew we definitely wanted to infuse into the narrative the relation of women at different ages with motherhood, their relationship with their babies versus their partners', their overall "need" to have children, their fears and projections on their children, etc. All of this we put into a pot, if you will, and simmered for a while until we had what made sense to us.”

Ifs Needs Children Made Different Age Wanted Baby Relation Motherhood Partners Narrative Etc Pot Versus Projection Different Ages

Author:Rania Attieh

“To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.”

People Way Want Should Firsts Littles Film Race Fit Directors Unique Strive Boxes Gender Boundaries Genre Filmmaker Etc Pushing Insightful Neat Orientation Bending Good Directors

Author:Rania Attieh

“The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.”

Self States Republican Scary Etc Righteous Self Righteous Utah Borderline

Book:Dave Barry Turns Forty

Source: Dave Barry Turns Forty

“There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.”

Knows Men Real Speak Language Honor Myth Etc Transcendent

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".”

May Race Class Debate Narrative Etc

Author:Neil Postman

“My Day Clothes are almost worne out...send the poor printer a few gammons, or some meal, some butter, cheese, poultry, etc.”

Poor Clothes Meals Etc Cheese Printer Poultry

Author:John Peter Zenger

“In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.”

Men Way Persons Made Next My Own Decision Etc Keep Going Terrified

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.”

Thinking Long Stories Film Acting Quality Standards Remains Decent Consistent Etc Anthology Good Change

Author:Neil Marshall

“One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.”

“If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.”

Ifs Needs Amount Newspapers Magazines Excitement Etc Criticize Overdrive

Author:Frank Rich

“Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.”

“The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.”

Writing Stuff Cases Danger Design Discipline Labor Come Up Albums Stuck Visuals Etc Division Collaboration Strict Division Of Labor

Author:David Grubbs

“I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist. I didn't go into a commercial movie house until I was a senior in college, and that was on the sly. It wasn't until I was in graduate school that I immersed myself in films. Then, I went to see all the films by Bergman, Fellini, etc.”

Children School Film House College Raised Etc Graduates Senior Baptists Fundamentalist Sly Graduate School Bergman

Author:Wes Craven

“A body is a living entity. It represents life, freedom, sensuality, and it is a mechanism to carry out our thoughts. A body is always beautiful to me. It depends on the individual work and what I do with it and what kind of idea lies behind it - if age matters or not. But in my group works, the only difference is how far people can go if it rains, snows etc.”

People Ifs Kind Ideas Matter Body Age Beautiful Lying Individual Differences Behinds Groups Depends Rain Snow Sensuality Etc Mechanism Entity Our Thoughts Individual Work Group Work

Author:Spencer Tunick

“The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the sun. The sun casts its rays on the Houses as it passes, turning them crimson. The color worn by the physical Cardinals is red, to symbolize that they are illuminated by their proximity to the Pope, the representative of God on earth. The word Pope, may also be a derivative of the word in Egyptian for the evil serpent Apep, Apophis or Apopsa (See Poop Deck and Pupa, and Pepsi, Pepsid, Dr. Pepper, Sgt. Pepper, etc,).”

“I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me. ... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.”

Way Important Helping Government Please Sitting Bills Presses Inspired Campaigns Mood Etc Senators Restriction Grim Furious Haircuts Sitting Alone New Haircut

Author:Rachel Lambert Mellon

“Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.”

People Trying Reason Use Etc Beans

Author:Roelof Botha

“My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.”

Should States Law Father Sports Interest Results Events Indian Etc Wrestling Olympics Representation Inadequate In-laws Discussing Athens Father In Law

Author:Amit Bhatia

“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."”

“I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!”

Ifs Mind Law Father Evolution Etc Monkeys Jackals Hyenas

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.”

World Two Facts Seems Might Form Political Belief Interest Religious Poor Rich Equal Flow Injustice Disappointment Violent Realization Etc Unjust Religious Belief

Book:Impossible Objects

Source: Impossible Objects

“Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.”

Knows World Reality Happens Hours Lines Television Tvs Harder Cameras Etc Spontaneous Wardrobe Reality Tv

Author:Tia Mowry

“When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc.”

Thinking Done Feelings Beautiful Guy Girl Three Waiting Approach Standards Filled Assuming Bars League Etc Swimming Pool Beautiful Girl Swimming Pool Jellyfish Feelings For Her

Author:Jason Mulgrew

“My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.”

Father Ran Etc Rachmaninoff

Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin

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