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“Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.”

Ifs Way Should Trying Firsts Kind Use Film Knowing Skills Technique Storytelling Temptation Get Back Not Knowing Best Film Technical Skills Good Storytelling

Author:Danny Boyle

“I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.”

People Knowing Circumstances Extremes Not Knowing

Author:Danny Boyle

“Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate.”

Self Whole Film Culture Knowing Generations Grew Grew Up Cameras Video Diets Filmmaker Working It Popular Culture Video Cameras

Author:Simon Pegg

“It's hard to confront someone without knowing, [but] I think the first thing you should do in a relationship - any kind of relationship - is confront. Then, if they seem shady, maybe go for the email or the text message.”

Ifs Thinking Should Firsts Kind Hard Seems Knowing Messages Email Shady Text Message

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.”

People Moments Laughing Knowing Comedy Sadness Middle Drama Catharsis

Author:Steve Coogan

“I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.”

Way Writing Knowing

Author:Youth Lagoon

“My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.”

Made Artist Process Talking Knowing Video Treatment Formulas Collaborators

Author:Adria Petty

“I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.”

Thinking I Can Perfect Knowing Musician Relate Communion

Author:Adria Petty

“When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much.”

World States Moving Political Certain Father Knowing Car Being A Father

Author:Nick Frost

“Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.”

Matter Cities Knowing Personality

Author:Anne Rice

“May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.”

May Care Knowing Bears Easier Sorrow Sympathy Sympathy Card

Author:Rob Jackson

“That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.”

People Sometimes Knowing Style Behavior Shots Cameras Spy

Author:Paul Feig

“I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Berlin Wall came down and the CW ended. Knowing you can die horribly at any moment because of decisions made by alien intelligences thousands of miles away who don't even know you exist - there's something Lovecraftian about that, isn't there?”

Knows Children Made War Moments Dies Decision Knowing Wall Cold Majors Down And Nuclear Miles Aliens Target Cold War Berlin Annihilation Miles Away Decisions Made Berlin Wall

Author:Charles Stross

“So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.”

Knowing Not Knowing Dio

Author:Josh Smith

“I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.”

Knows Way Want Persons Character Hate Actors Pleasure Gone Knowing Too Much I Hate Agree Divorce Screens Cinema Viewers Alcoholics Knowing Too Much

Author:Keira Knightley

“I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one of the first bureau chiefs I think ever at the New York Times. Hearing these stories of how hard it was for her, and yet knowing how easy it is for me right now is just remarkable.”

Thinking World Feels Firsts Hard Stories Mother Easy Knowing New York Grew Right Now Grew Up Hearing Chiefs Journalist Remarkable New York Times Oysters

Author:Liz W. Garcia

“I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all.”

Thinking Humans Darkness Knowing Sacred Not Knowing Unknowing Sacred Places

Author:Sam Keen

“Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.”

Thinking Years Two Strong Careers Knowing Training Built Foundation Greek Two Years Latin Longevity Attics Strong Foundation

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.”

World Art Stills Self Moments Form Ability Grief Knowing Possibility Color Evolution Shadow Meetings Someday Simplest Liberating

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life.”

Heart Art Feelings Turns Language Knowing Tongue Gestures Vocabulary Grammar Thoughts And Feelings Immersion Diction Art Making

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.”

Knows Want Needs Writing Hands Eye Names Ability Knowing Color Please Ears Physics Painter Landscape Gestures Rhetoric

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.”

Want Kind My Own Knowing Program Available Protection Improvement Versions Enjoyment Programming Free Time

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.”

Said Different Whole Bits Knowing Pieces Written Heard Style Down And Honestly Sat Liars Rapper Bits And Pieces

Author:Bun B

“When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's very important is that heart disease...is preventable. There are some specific lifestyle changes that women can make: losing weight, not smoking, exercising, eating healthy foods. Knowing the risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [being] overweight. And if you have heart disease in your family, you should see your doctor. Because this disease is preventable.”

“That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.”

People May Important Today Knowing Share Miles Great Things Smartphones

Author:Lewis Hamilton

“We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.”

Knows Art Ideas Form Knowing Painting Depends Everyday

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.”

People Thinking Should Writing Trying Believe Knowing Don't Believe Math Code

Author:Linus Torvalds

“TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.”

Long Moments Term Laughing Knowing Emotional Tvs Long Term

Author:Michael Brandt

“I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.”

Thinking Facts Helping Choices Teach Knowing Failing Success Failure Right Choices Learning From Failure Make The Right Choice

Author:Eric Idle

“Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.”

Thinking Interesting Knowing Discovery Fascinating Cheer Very Interesting Primates

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.”

Two Knowing Type

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.”

Knowing Six Boring Neighbor Things In Life Loving God

Author:Peter Kreeft

“I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.”

Feels Knowing Frightened Not Knowing Knowing Things Uncertainty And Doubt Mysterious Universe

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.”

Knows Ability Knowing Doubt Essence Primacy

Book:Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman

Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman

“One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.”

Want Humans Wells Children Done Facts Dies House Knowing Tree Dying Expectations Plant Species Damn Human Species Plant A Tree

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.”

Way Knowing Essence Distinctive Frills

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.”

Hard Individual Pleasure Knowing Wise Wonderful Prove

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.”

Knowing Ignorance Sickness Tao Te Ching Leadership

Book:Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation

Source: Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation

“Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.”

Knows Done Known Knowing

Book:Paperweight

Source: Paperweight

“There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.”

Way Knowing Torture

Author:Rumi

“Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.”

Children Born Knowing Dog

Book:No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way

Source: No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way

“This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.”

Way Waiting Answers Cases Knowing Knowing The Truth

Book:The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments : the Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation Including the Marginal and Parallel Texts ; with a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings

Source: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments : the Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation Including the Marginal and Parallel Texts ; with a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings

“Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!”

Knows Men Self States Knowing Ignorance Areas Senses Satisfied Knowing Nothing Unawareness

Book:The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

Source: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

“The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.”

Knows Mean Reality Life Is Knowing Essentials Features Knowing God

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.”

Want Firsts Secret Knowing What You Want Getting What You Want Knowing What You Want

Author:Arthur D. Hlavaty

“The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.”

Christian Life Is Purpose Behinds Knowing Okay Christian Life God Is In Control Headlights

Book:Crossing the Line of Faith: Help Your Friends Know God in a Style That Fits You

Source: Crossing the Line of Faith: Help Your Friends Know God in a Style That Fits You

“You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.”

Guy Next Names Knowing Months

Book:Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Source: Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

“I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Fighting Speak Mistake Quality Knowing Western Not Knowing Eastern Yankees Illinois Southerner Knowing Myself

Book:Conversations With Lincoln

Source: Conversations With Lincoln

“To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.”

Author:Tibor Kalman

“We can now what better is without knowing what good is.”

Author:Steve de Shazer