“Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.” WantMadeImportantBigsCareFilmDirectorsConsciousWhat's ImportantBig MovieTarantinoGood Directors Author:Melanie Laurent
“The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.” PeopleMadeBigsUsedIndustryUsed To BeMovie Industry Author:Stefanie Powers
“There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they make realities, where they make infinities.” WorldMadeMomentsBigsRealityBuddhismInfinityFactoriesOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.” MindFirstsMadeBookBigsAgeSchoolLife IsSpiritUniverseInterestingHigh SchoolConceptsMeetingsMy FavoriteMake SenseNew AgeIntroductionWrinklesFavorite BookWrinkle In Time Author:Mae Whitman
“Everybody saw my successful advertising and thought I was a big success. But, behind those successes were several failures that I had to learn from before I made it. I've always looked at failure as just another step you need to take to reach success.” MenNeedsMadeBigsBehindsStepsSuccessfulSawsAdvertisingMade It Author:Joseph Sugarman
“When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.” YearsFirstsMadeBigsNightThreeBreakMonthsThree MonthsPrevious Years Author:Jack McBrayer
“Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry.” WayMadeBigsSidesLinesTechnologyAudienceChangedIndustryInternetSpreadBig ThingsThings ChangeMusic IndustryPiracy Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.” WorldMadeSaidCountryBigsWould BeAbleCoursesLeftWishDecisionCryDirectorsTenEmbraceUniversityEastBeing The BestCoastAthleticPrestigeIowaEast CoastRutgers Author:C. Vivian Stringer
“When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongMadeBigsLastsTermInterestingMistakeCompanyToo MuchBasesExcitedLong TermNativeBig ThingsMobileIntrospectiveAppsBettingBiggest MistakeAndroidsIos Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“I’d say that Berkshire Hathaway’s system is adapting to the nature of the investment problem as it really is. We’ve really made the money out of high quality businesses. In some cases, we bought the whole business. And in some cases, we just bought a big block of stock. But when you analyze what happened, the big money’s been made in the high quality businesses. And most of the other people who’ve made a lot of money have done so in high quality businesses.” PeopleMadeDoneWholeProblemBigsQualityCasesHappenedInvestmentBlockLots Of MoneyHigh QualityAdapting Author:Charlie Munger
“I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.” MadeBigsActionDealsMediaCreationNotionBig DealSuspiciousBin Laden Author:Peter Bergen
“I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.” WayMadeDoneUseBigsSeemsFictionSituationOrdinaryScience FictionGenreCandyOrdinary ThingsScience Love Author:Rian Johnson
“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.” MenNeedsMadeSaidTwoStoriesShowsBigsFatherSourceEvolveCriminality Author:Thomas Langmann
“If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.” IfsMadeBigsGamesAttitudeTeamSpringTrainingLeaguePolishGood AttitudeSpring Training Author:Cory Lidle
“It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.” ThinkingLifeBelieveMadeBigsUniverse Book:Peaches Source: Peaches
“Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!” IfsThinkingWorldHumansMadeStillsHandsBigsBeautifulHeavenCan DoKnownEnvironmentHeardBandSingingAngelInstrumentsHeavenlyOrchestraSymphonyOur EnvironmentChoirBeautiful MusicSymphony OrchestrasGreatest Music Author:David Berg
“My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.” KnowsHumansMadeBigsSexDealsToo MuchHuman NatureResponseSignificanceFrankBig Deal Author:John Travolta
“I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.” WayArtMadeShowsBigsAudienceHeardFindingsHappeningsBiggerStatementsStoppingFillingGallery Author:Jerry Saltz
“You never know what`s going to be big. It`s the fans. It was just a Disney Channel Movie and the kids made it huge... For High School Musical 2 (2007) (TV), we just wanted to have fun and make something together.” KnowsMadeBigsKidsWantedSchoolTogetherFunFansTvsHugeHigh SchoolMusicalMade ItHaving FunHigh School MusicalDisney Channel Author:Ashley Tisdale
“If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.” IfsThinkingWorldWantKindMadeStoriesBigsSoundHappenedMessagesCleverMade ItBoastCleverness Author:Dave Gorman
“Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.” MadeBigsBoysSentencesMade ItEstatesCouncilOne WordOasisCouncil Estates Author:Noel Gallagher
“I was also very lucky to be able to work with talented people while I was learning. I didn't actually go to fashion school. I worked with Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy which was a really pivotal experience for me. He taught me a lot about being faithful to your own voice and to really believe in your own voice and that's made a big difference.” PeopleBelieveMadeBigsAbleSchoolVoiceDifferencesFashionTaughtLuckyFaithfulBelieve In YouBeing FaithfulPivotalGivenchy Author:Joseph Altuzarra
“Fighting is really, really rewarding. I truly enjoyed it. I got feelings from fighting that were bigger than those I had experienced in almost any other realm of my life. It made me feel awake in a way that I had never been awake. Those kinds of big emotions and big experiences may come with a heavy price tag.” WayFeelsKindMayMadeFeelingsBigsFightingEmotionBiggerHeavyEnjoyedAwakeRealmsTagPrice Tag Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.” PeopleMadeBigsOpportunityAbilityWalksDealsBlindMusicalBig DealGreat OpportunityMeeting New People Author:Patrick Henry Hughes
“In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.” ThinkingWayLongMadeImportantBigsHappensNextWinningStrongTermLossDecisionImagineWorstSpecialEmotionalPeriodsWeakTradeProfitTemptationSomething SpecialStreaksInsidious Author:William Eckhardt
“I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'” WorldMadeBigsSchoolYeahCousinBuddyMillionaireReally CoolGrimeYour Cousin Author:Sampha
“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!” ThinkingMadeBigsSittingSpeculatorsBull Markets Book:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'” GivingLooksMadeStillsBigsTodayLastsPastStepsNiceLandLuckyHundredMy FriendsBaseballBallsGive MeTwentiesMade ItTwenty OnePrestigeAcres Author:Mark Fidrych
“So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and then the big stars will be people who live in Brentwood or wherever it is, and they have a show called, I don't know, "Pool Parties of Brentwood" or something like that.” PeopleKnowsMadeShowsBigsActorsGamesStarsPartyVideoPoolObsoletePool Party Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.” PeopleLooksMadeTwoStoriesBigsNaturalKeysEasierComfortUnderstoodScreensLove StoryMade ItChemistrySensibility Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.” DoeMadeShowsBigsFatherBarsContributionDisability Author:Stephen Hawking
“All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.” IfsGivingYearsLittlesMadeEndsEnoughBigsWhiteRocksDesignObjectsPicksBaseballFingersWoodsSurfaceIrresistibleLeatherNeatLightersSlipperyHunk Author:Dave Dravecky
“All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.” KnowsTryingMadeDoneBigsMistakeScrewsKeep TryingScrew Ups Author:J. J. Abrams
“Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.” MadeSaidBigsOpportunitySidesWallPropertyPrivate PropertyBack Side Author:Woody Guthrie
“Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.” LifeMadeBigsMistakeCivilizationAcceptedEquationsRandomnessBig Mistake Book:The Stone Gods Source: The Stone Gods
“I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.” MindMadeMatterBigsHurtJokesEarsNo Matter WhatNutsI Was Hurt Author:Jimmy Durante
“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.” MadeBigsEyeStuffTreeSingingBirdEmptyClockStaringHallsPensShoreTidesBlankTrafficRottenOrnamentsMeasuringPavementRailway Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender