“If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!” IfsWayChildrenLongImportantHomeRealityRunningValuesForgetEffortMillionsOne ThingInvolvedUltimateBusyThis LifeSatanGloriousHeritageLong RunsInsignificantConcentratingFamily ValuesHomecomingWhere We CameHome And FamilyInsignificant Things Author:Marvin J. Ashton
“One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show you have to brave the weather to get there. So you show up and everyone's soaking wet - there's a sense of 'I trekked through three feet of snow to get here!' I think there's a kind of camaraderie that arises out of that, that's important to me as well.” IfsThinkingWellsKindImportantShowsThreePoorOne ThingFeetColdBraveAriseSnowWeatherBeerWetCamaraderieMontrealSoaking Author:Grimes
“I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.” IfsWritingTwoMatterHoursMorningFourOne ThingFoolBedNo Matter What Author:Kiese Laymon
“I think it's one thing if you are turning out dozens or even a hundred stories a year, you've got to have a great supporting cast behind you. Superman had a family that developed, and it's only natural that Batman has a family of sorts that developed. I think it's a great way to keep the comics interesting and varied, to appeal to different segments of an audience, to bring new perspectives to it.” IfsThinkingWayYearsDifferentStoriesNaturalInterestingBehindsAudienceOne ThingPerspectiveHundredCastsAppealsDozenBehind YouNew Perspective Author:Michael Uslan
“One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at first like they're uncomfortable or unwilling to talk, if you keep in touch with them, a year later that might yield something much more powerful.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsSeemsMightPowerfulOne ThingSourceContactUncomfortableYieldUnwilling Author:Sarah Stillman
“The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out and he told me that if I wanted to have a long career, I had to be versatile, that I shouldn't just think of myself in one way, because there would come a time when maybe that one thing wasn't working out for me - and I'd still want to earn a living as a writer.” IfsThinkingWayWantLongStillsWantedCareersPiecesOne ThingAdviceBrotherStartingWork OutOne WayMy BrotherStarting OutVersatileLong Careers Author:Tod Goldberg
“You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.” IfsLooksJoyLiteratureLosesOne ThingDangerArtificialNo Point Author:T.C. Boyle
“I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book to make it make sense to that language. But one thing that was really important to me was not to italicize any of the words in the languages that were in the stories, because I feel like those foreign words felt just as important and integral to the story as everything else, so I wanted it all to just exist as its own thing.” IfsFeelsWritingImportantBookStoriesWantedLanguageFeltAudienceRightsOne ThingMake Sense Author:Molly Antopol
“Usually, whatever's in front of me is what I'm focused on and it's 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next. Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.” IfsKindMovingOrderNextOne ThingFrontsFocusedRestaurantsOne Thing At A Time Author:Adam Young
“It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.” IfsThinkingWaySongNextSoundVoiceInterestingLevelsNiceOne ThingUniqueSingingGuitarTrackBeing RealDiverseVocalTextureReally NiceAcousticsNext LevelSwitchingLushVocalistInstrumentationVoice Singing Author:Flume
“One thing that is very different technically is that you don't get a lot of coverage in television. Not like you do on a film. I know we don't have time for separate set-ups, so I will design a scene where I'm hiding multiple cameras within that set-up. That way, if I don't have time to do five set-ups, I can do four cameras in one set-up. It's a different kind of approach for that. For the most part, a lot of television, in a visual sense, lacks time for the atmosphere and putting you in a place.” IfsKnowsWayKindI CanDifferentFilmCan DoFiveFourOne ThingDesignTelevisionLike YouSceneApproachCamerasAtmosphereVisualsHidingDifferent KindsMultipleCoverage Author:Len Wiseman
“I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.” IfsFilmOne ThingFilmmakerJust OnePalestine Author:Elia Suleiman
“If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to play semantics, make up wild thought 'experiments', that is another thing. I am not so interested in the latter, though I do appreciate that it can be fun, however unproductive.” IfsWantPlayFunOne ThingAppreciateExperimentsLatterSemanticsUnproductive Author:Patricia Churchland