“The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies.” MomentsKidsJobsAsksEnjoyBornSimpleAnswersTakenHappenedAmountScenePagesInfiniteScripts Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.” WritingEarthUniverseSimplePagesDareTalesNot SureComplexityAttributesNotoriousSimple Words Book:Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness Source: Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness
“I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'” MenFirstsReasonDoneCertainGirlThreeBlackSimplePagesDamnParksSnakesLatinoSimple LifeJurassic Park Author:Ice Cube
“While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.” ThinkingJobsSimpleGrowing UpGrowingDependsPagesTurner Author:Ashwin Sanghi
“What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.” SimplePrinciplesWrittenPagesEconomicsFundamentalsFascinatingFundamental Principles Author:Milton Friedman
“Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.” WantMindHeartAsksSimplePagesUnderstoodComplexesSurfaceComplexityHeart And MindUnspoken Author:Jane Hirshfield
“There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.” TurnsSimpleReaderPagesRecipesSellersBest Sellers Author:Ian Fleming
“There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.” MenAbleEasySimpleWiseAchieveDisciplinePagesUglyDullRealisingCaptureVulgarTransparentTypographyOstentation Author:Beatrice Warde
“Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.” IfsWritingMindBookSoulEndsYoungFoundLinesSimpleExpressionPagesMovedDrawingDiscussionPhasesImageryYoung MindsIllustrating Author:Christopher Meledandri
“I just read that one scene for Emily in New Moon, and it was pretty simple and straightforward. They liked that I did it really natural. They were like, "That was great!," even with what little I had. Sometimes just having those little scenes are a lot tougher than if you have five pages because you have to go from 0 to 100 in a snap.” IfsLittlesSometimesNaturalSimpleFiveSceneMoonPagesStraightforwardSnapsEmilyNew Moon Author:Tinsel Korey
“It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.” PeopleWayMindTwoSimpleAttentionAudienceMinutesPagesPreparedImpressionPay AttentionFrame Of MindGags Author:Frank Caliendo
“Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.” WayLittlesStillsSocialBitsSimpleFansMediaLittle BitPagesCommunicateSocial MediaPlatforms Author:Mark Cuban
“I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.” BookFactsRomanceReadingSimplePagesComicComic BookMexicanMelodramaTurner Author:Guy Maddin
“In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.” YearsProblemSimplePagesMathematicsDefinitionsBonesMathematics And Science Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how to structure it, what sort of sentences (direct, elliptical, simple or compound, syntactically elaborate), what tone (in art, "tone" is everything), pacing. Paragraphing is a way of dramatization, as the look of a poem on a page is dramatic; where to break lines, where to end sentences.” WayWritingLooksArtEndsProblemLinesSimpleQualityBreakMaterialsPagesAspectDirectStructureSentencesDramaticToneProblem SolvingPresentationStressedCompoundsPacing Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.” WritingYearsKindLongTwoStoriesFightingFoundDarkLossSimpleBoysRegretCoupleComputerPagesSittingBetrayalTalesSatShort StoryNostalgicKites Author:Khaled Hosseini
“A simple MS Word document, or a Powerpoint presentation, has its limits, particularly the unpredictability in how the page will actually display. With a PDF, you are locking down all those variables.” SimpleLimitsPagesDisplayDocumentsPresentationVariablesUnpredictabilityPowerpoint Author:Michael Bierut
“The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.” SimplePathPagesGloriousTragicFree Society Author:Vladimir Putin
“We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.” LoveLifePersonsBookStoriesSeemsAgeTogetherLyingStrongSimpleBehindsSweetQuietPagesAnd LoveLibraryVulnerableVolumeShelvesRipOne WordBinding Author:Deb Caletti
“We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.” LoveBookAgeLyingSimpleBehindsPagesAnd LoveBinding Book:Honey, Baby, Sweetheart Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.” GivingFeelsMayBookHandsPurposeTurnsSoundSimplePleasureReaderFitShapesPaperPagesGive MeMereSizePatternsPrintPracticalityVersatilityFonts Author:Susan Hill