“When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. And there's an exhaustion that happens on a film set - an exhaustion that translates into a relaxation and helps me to live in the moment, in the performance I'm giving and what's happening around me.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsMomentsHelpingHappensTogetherFilmCommunityPiecesProduceBuildingHappeningsPerformancesScriptsHelp MeTranslateLive In The MomentRelaxationExhaustionFilm SetBuilding Something Author:Jonathan Groff
“Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it? The scientists have long held that the evidence in their considered word is "unequivocal," which has been endorsed by every national academy of science in every major country in the entire world.” ThinkingWorldLongHas BeensCountryEarthHellMagicMajorsHappeningsEvidenceScientistWavePhysicsThings HappenHeatTrapsCarbonAcademyWandsCarbon DioxideMagic WandsUnequivocal Author:Al Gore
“Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsHelpingSeemsCertainActingHappeningsTechnique Author:Richard Gere
“When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.” WayWellsChallengesAudienceSceneHappeningsDialogueRhythmOperationsPerformingRight TimeFitting Author:Clive Owen
“The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.” MovingReadingLinesHappeningsFlowScriptsMomentum Author:Kirsten Dunst
“I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.” PeopleFirstsDreamFightingSpeakHappeningsScalesRealizationAmerican DreamVibrations Author:Jay-Z
“You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsYearsKindStatesSeemsVoiceAnswersGrowingEffectsMovementHappeningsToughStartingActiveBest WayCollectivesEmergingDisillusionedCampaigningDazed Author:Scarlett Johansson
“People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.” PeopleWantBelieveStrongI BelieveArmsHappeningsStudiosStoresApplesPiracyItunesStrong ArmsMp3 Author:Charles Stross
“I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.” HappensEyeAttentionFrontsHappeningsPaidSomething NewPassagesPassage Of Time Author:William Eggleston
“It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.” IfsBigsTodayMissingNeededHappeningsSomething NewGroceriesSupermarketsPredecessors Author:William Eggleston
“I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.” ThinkingLittlesHomeFilmBitsViewsParticularIndustryNeededLittle BitHappeningsStartingStrengthening Author:Saoirse Ronan
“The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.” MomentsPlanetsSourceOceanHappeningsFinalsThings HappenDramaticExploringFrontiersOur PlanetSource Of LifeUnexplored Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.” ImportantFrontsInformationHappeningsBasesFactorsIdeologyFormation Author:Andrew Neel
“I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never control what's happening.” WayTryingStoriesInterestingHappeningsMethodTechniqueStorytellingInteresting Ways Author:Jørgen Leth
“I really think that to a lot of people hair is everything. Bad hair takes over everything, it really does. I think if somebody has bad hair it doesn't matter what else is happening.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoeMatterHairHappeningsBad Hair Author:Goldie Hawn
“What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.” MenForceBehindsMountainComfortableHappeningsStandingMovedPopulationCollectivesOne ManEnergizing Author:Ani DiFranco
“It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.” RealPastSocialTasteHappeningsTragedyCommentCensorshipBlastBad TasteSomething Real Author:Margaret Cho
“I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.” IdeasHappeningsNew IdeasNostalgic Author:Douglas Coupland
“If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.” IfsArtFilmFormCultureLanguageChallengesNovelHappeningsContemporaryNovelistsEssaysAccommodate Author:Don DeLillo
“All of us as human beings are connected by one energy and consciousness. So we all affect each other and everything that's happening in the world affects us individually. And what we're each doing as an individual affects what's going on in the world.” WorldHumansIndividualEnergyHuman BeingsConsciousnessHappeningsConnected Author:Shakti Gawain
“A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.” HappeningsMyth Author:Jean Houston
“My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.” BookRealMatterHelpingDealsHappeningsNo Matter WhatMy FavoriteReal LifeHelp MeFavorite Book Author:Torii Hunter
“We have to make a disciplined effort to find out what our governments are doing in these various parts of the world and what is actually happening. We have to learn to listen to each other's stories. Something we are not very good at.” WorldStoriesGovernmentEffortHappeningsVery GoodVarious Author:Karen Armstrong
“I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.” ThinkingWayShouldIdeasDoneAbleJobsGuyNextCompanyGenerationsDutyHappeningsMetaphorWork OutSymbolsStaffComplaintsNext GenerationBetter Ways Author:Anita Roddick
“As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience.” SelfEnoughLightSidesDarkViewsPossibilityHappeningsCriticismUnfortunateTemperamentSkepticDark SideUnluckyRosySelf CriticismPosse Author:Savielly Tartakower
“An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.” WishAdventureHappenings Author:Mark Twain
“The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.” ShouldSpeakGivenTakenHappeningsResearchDataElusive Book:The Politics of Experience Source: The Politics of Experience
“...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.” IfsMenYearsPastUnderstandingHappeningsThanksSimilarity Author:Marcus Aurelius
“It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.” HumanityIndividualForgetSituationEventsHappeningsShameAimHorribleCurseTolerateShamefulInfamy Author:Rudolf Virchow
“We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.” WayNeedsWonderfulHappeningsRewardsDescribing Author:Ming-Dao Deng
“Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.” MenWorldOrderTurnsMoralHighestHappeningsHeed Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.” PeopleIfsKnowsAmericaUsedWatchesHappenedHappeningsDevilSouthPossessionRacistPriestsPossessedDocumentariesSatanicSouth AmericaCentral America Author:Chuck Klosterman
“The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.” WayUnderstandingPhotographyHappeningsAimAnother WayArticulation Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.” LightAudienceDoorsHappeningsPerformancesDown AndThings I LoveTurned DownLive Performance Author:Cate Blanchett
“I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.” WorldNeedsFeelsLooksKindDifferentRealStoriesBigsMightForceSocialSuccessfulJourneyEmotionalHappeningsInjusticeIntimacyFormulasRelevantOperaDifferent TimesSocial Injustice Author:Jake Heggie
“We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer data is, and that if it's vulnerable, then their business is, too, and so you see a beefing up of encryption technologies. At the same time, no programs have been dismantled at the governmental level, despite international pressure.” IfsHas BeensBigsLevelsCompanyTechnologyHappeningsProgramPressureInternationalCustomersDespiteVulnerableDataApplesGoogleBig CompaniesEncryption Author:Laura Poitras
“I think it's very important to get this stuff on film, not just the behind-the-scenes of the process, but also the interviews with the women. We're going to try to do some on-the-street filming, getting people's reactions to the work, and seeing if we can get some street harassment happening on film so people can see what we're talking about. It's important to have some type of documentation so people can see what happens when we create this artwork and why I'm creating it.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingImportantHappensFilmStuffProcessBehindsTalkingSeeingStreetsTypeSceneCreatingHappeningsReactionsInterviewsArtworkHarassmentBehind The ScenesDocumentationStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.” WorldNeedsMayShowsAttentionDemandHappeningsPhotographVersionsViewersPosing Author:Fred Ritchin
“There's something really happening and really moving, and it's exciting and it makes me very optimistic because it is going to be the engine for how we really combat climate change. Which is strong communities.” MovingStrongCommunityHappeningsExcitingClimateClimate ChangeOptimisticCombatEnginesStrong Community Author:Josh Fox
“E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.” PeopleWaySaidInternetHappeningsCommerceGlimpseHypeDeploymentE CommerceBroadband Author:Andy Grove
“It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil.” WantDoubtWeaponsMassHappeningsDestructionTragedyIraqSeekingExcuseIsraelOilNo DoubtAlliesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionBehaving Badly Author:Nelson Mandela
“I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright. It's like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything's fine.” WorldRealStuffCitiesFineHappeningsFar AwayCartoonBugsAlrightCollectorsEscapismBunniesMgm Author:Michael Jackson
“I grew up with him [Michael Jackson] and I've spent a lot of time at Neverland and nothing has ever happened with me in any way. You have to look at both sides. I do think it is very convenient that his album came out and all this stuff is happening. I definitely do think that's very convenient... It really hurts me to see that his whole life is ruined.” ThinkingWayLooksWholeLife IsStuffSidesHurtHappenedGrewGrew UpHappeningsAlbumsWhole LifeBoth SidesRuinedConvenientHurt MeNeverlandIt Really Hurts Author:Nicole Richie
“When I think of the pace that I drove my first race, everything was happening a million miles an hour. Now when I get in the car everything happens so much slower.” ThinkingFirstsHappensHoursRaceMillionsCarHappeningsMilesThings HappenPace Author:Dan Wheldon
“I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.” WritingImagineHappeningsCarefulViewers Author:Asghar Farhadi
“I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited.” HappeningsEverydayExcitedRhythmSurprisingVery Happy Author:Kate del Castillo
“I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.” LightActorsSceneHappeningsCarried Away Author:Benjamin Avila
“If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.” IfsTryingMovingArtistChoicesCareersFitHappeningsCareers Choices Author:Nikka Costa
“A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying to shape performances, coax performances out of them. It's more like I want to put them in situations that naturally work or allow them to be themselves. If it's not happening, I'll just completely switch it up, rather than trying to make it work.” PeopleIfsWantTryingFirstsActorsSituationShapesHappeningsFirst TimePerformances Author:Joe Swanberg
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover