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“Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.”

Want Giving Feels Happens Guy Actors Space Walks Figures Design What You Want Editors Going Out Lighting

Author:Tarsem Singh

“My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.”

Wanted My Own Figures Dad Let Me My Dad

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.”

Father Figures Dad My Dad Intimidating Father Figure

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message.”

Ifs May Lines Healing Morning Car Figures Messages Driving Routes Monday Headache Monday Morning

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Inspiration means that you don't have to figure things out, or think about them. Ideas and answers pop into your head and the energy carries you forward, if you allow it. Planning. . . is a way of ritually killing inspiration, which transcends the need for planning.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Mean Ideas Inspiration Energy Answers Figures Killing Pops Planning Carrie

Author:Chuck Spezzano

“When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse "I don't know where to start" is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available on Amazon.com and the limitless supply of free articles found through Google, everything you need is just a click away. It's time you go figure it out!”

“To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.”

World Love Needs May Desire Stars Sky Figures Sweet Wall Lovers Red Rose Snow Imaginary Strain Red Rose Imaginary World

Author:Williston Fish

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

Ends Figures Delight Confusion Cult Sects Momentary Clarification

Author:Robert Frost

“A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure, figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and boring but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's always something somewhere. . . even if you have to just pretend to laugh until you really do!”

Ifs Way Seems Pain Fun Stuff Attitude Laughing Creative Figures Right Now Laughter Tasks Endure Painful Boring Lifestyle Dull Midst Overwhelming Giggle Make You Smile

Book:The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg

Source: The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg

“The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.”

“You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.”

Way Use Figures Buddhism Exercise Mindfulness Gains Best Way Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.”

Soul Body Asks Figures Philosophical My Soul Impressed Soul And Body

Author:Aristotle

“The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.”

Thinking Needs States Next President United United States One Thing Figures Chiefs Commanders Commander In Chief

Author:Lindsey Graham

“Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.”

Men Believe Problem Figures Majors Method Intimate One Woman Major Problems

Author:Gail Saltz

“I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures.”

Figures Wrestling Mexican

Author:Joseph Bruce

“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.”

Needs Looks Kind Film Certain Actors Stars Quality Figures Particular Ordinary Illusion Claims Film Stars

Author:Stephen Fry

“A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.”

Feels Trying Wells Character Shows Happens Voice Figures Color Tvs Fit Horror Paint Suspense Frustration Dread Tv Shows Anger And Fear

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.”

Trying Individual Figures

Author:Misty Copeland

“You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.”

Needs Looks Past Moving Community Roles Figures Moving Forward Our Family Our Past Your Past

Author:Greg Bryk

“I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.”

Thinking Knows Important Country Able Support Security Figures Periods Posts Borders September September 11th

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?”

Way Want Trying Father Figures More Time Back In Time Go Back In Time

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.”

“There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.”

Literature Figures Orphan American Literature Very Romantic

Author:Christopher Bollen

“A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they're gonna have - they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to figure out how they gonna - you know, figure that one out.”

People Knows Trying Hard Figures Hard Times Marcos Having A Hard Time

Author:Eric Bolling

“The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.”

War Sides Situation Figures Complexity

Author:Jamie Bell

“The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.”

Littles Boys Growing Up Growing Figures Erotic Little Boys Sophia

Author:John Travolta

“Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.”

Men Believe Christian Three Christianity Figures Promise Deserve Assuming Everyday Punishment Incompetence Pitiful

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.”

Matter Life Is Fall Figures Activity Commitment Falling In Love

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.”

Giving Figures Merit Shade Modesty Standing Out

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.”

Men Action Style Figures Changed Pulse Physiognomy

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.”

World Character Christian Christ Figures Features Tenderness Pathetic Widows

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.”

People Ifs Looks Said Courses Differences Doors Figures Essentials Picks Standing Trade Weather Useless Etc Working It Standing Out Veins Respectable Beggar Livelihood Accountants Bronchitis

Author:George Orwell

“Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?”

Wells Kind May Done Eye Answers Figures Painting Paint Drawing Wit Public Eye Catalogues Figure Painting

Book:the works of thomas hood

Source: the works of thomas hood

“How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.”

World Looks Shows Spirit Figures Movement Color Simpletons

Author:Michelangelo

“A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.”

Children Made Beautiful Night Figures Ugly Painter

Book:Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

Source: Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

“He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.”

People Ifs Eye Levels Streets Figures Position Ought Higher Models Draws Drawing Portraits

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”

Men Wells Action Poor Results Figures Produce Painting Masters Embrace Fortuitous

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.”

Ifs Knows Men Made Use Moving Know How Figures Ready Painter Orators

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.”

Self Enough Happens Moving Figures Periods Accomplish Cures Over It Get Over Keep Moving Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Conan O'Brien

“In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.”

Ifs Values Space Figures Movement Painting Source Type Sole Principal Composition Enchantment Source Of Life Tactile Figure Painting

Author:Bernard Berenson

“A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.”

Love Is Sea Figures Poet Lays

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Done Form Games Sleep Figures Return Wake Up Excuse Complaining Beast Pushing Going To Sleep Get It Done Bad Games

Author:Matt Kemp

“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.”

Persons Figures Poet Musician Painter Landscape Sunset Music Love Love Poetry Nightingales Musician Love Love Picture

Author:Andre Malraux

“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”

Ifs Humans Soul Earth Moving Spirit Animal Wonder Tree Figures Painting Flower Delight Painter Hills Landscape Limbs Fullness Human Soul Petals Figure Painting

Book:Works

Source: Works

“It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.”

Way Whole Feelings Eye Perfect Impossible Figures Masters Lips Sweetness Seals Selected Refinement Solemnity Closed Eyes

Book:The works of John Ruskin

Source: The works of John Ruskin

“Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.”

Humans Wells Looks Values Sacrifice Figures Balance Paper Budgets Human Life Sheets Bourgeois Accounting Balance Sheets

Author:Simone Weil

“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”

Ifs Giving Trying Firsts Ends Night Easy Stuff Deals Tree Special Figures Late Tough Rain Seasons Miracle Plant Seeds Soil Sunshine What If Wow Arrangements Reserved

Author:Jim Rohn

“You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.”

Looks Light Faces Fall Figures Color Models Weight Tone Proportion Joints Texture Scrutinize

Author:Howard Pyle

“You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.”

Children Childhood Figures Fields Rain Woods Snow Landscape Meadows

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.”

Figures Painting Manage Strokes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

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