“I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.” ThinkingWritingHas BeensBitsPeriodsBurden Author:Leo Ornstein
“I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.” ThinkingLittlesBigsFilmCausesBitsPeriodsLittle BitBunchDamagePacksCrewFiniteCircusMovie BusinessBig FamiliesFilm Crew Author:Francis Lawrence
“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.” PeopleFeelsYearsHumansLastsSpiritLostBitsOpinionPeriodsLowsChampionOptimistHuman Spirit Author:Jude Law
“I've got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit better.” YearsLittlesAbleTurnsBitsCouplePeriodsLittle BitHopefully Author:Lydia Ko
“American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.” ThinkingLittlesCountryAmericaBitsAudiencePiecesPeriodsLittle BitFascinatedOld Things Author:Channing Tatum
“Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.” LongHas BeensMadeMatterTogetherStuffBitsPeriodsFlowCloudsBe YouReplacedPersistFlux Author:Steve Grand
“You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.” IfsWritingWellsMayLongDoneMovingOrderBitsProcessPoorReadyPeriodsExcellentProductiveMediocre Author:Ray Bradbury
“Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.” LongBitsGonePeriodsLonely Author:Rufus Sewell
“I'm sure favorite moments in movies are things that just happen accidentally when the camera is there. You have to do all the homework to get yourself into the period, the costumes, the style, the voice, the hairdo or whatever it is, but once you've done all that work, you have to kind of let it go and just be there. If you're always thinking about it, it just looks a bit over-thought.” IfsThinkingLooksKindDoneMomentsHappensBitsVoiceStylePeriodsCamerasCostumesLet It GoHomeworkAlways ThinkingHairdos Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.” FirstsMadeStillsDifferentPlaySongGirlBitsNumbersPlayerPeriodsSceneMusicianMusic IsNotesStudiosMoodTreasureTidesBassTempoIsleBass PlayersDifferent Moods Author:Alton Ellis
“The first day's always the hardest, because it moves so much faster than a film does and once you get into that rhythm, though, you feel like you've accomplished so much in such a short period of time, so there a bit of comfort in that. You just have to find your rhythm.” FeelsFirstsDoeFilmMovingBitsLike YouPeriodsComfortHardestRhythmFasterAccomplished Author:Jaimie Alexander
“There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.” PeopleKnowsTryingI CanBitsWorkPeriodsPressureAlbumsGood WorkDo The Best Author:Aaliyah
“Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.” FirstsWellsLittlesTwoDoneHelpingHomeActionThreeStarsStuffBitsFocusMonthsPeriodsFitLittle BitTrainingComing HomeRecallsGymnasticsThree MonthsUnderworldTotal Recall Author:Colin Farrell
“I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.” ThinkingYearsKindEndsHardFeltBitsRealizingMonthsPeriodsTrainingTiredNineRecallsUnderworldNine MonthsTotal Recall Author:Colin Farrell
“I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.” YearsSchoolBitsStudyPeriodsBritishAustraliaBritish History Author:Eric Bana
“I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.” KnowsWayFeelsKindBookBitsPaintingLike YouPeriodsDramaBoundariesPerformingCostumes Author:Keira Knightley
“You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form.” ThinkingFormActorsBitsPeriodsAreasLazyTerrificSportsman Author:John Hurt
“My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.” LittlesYoungBitsPeriodsLuckyLittle BitMusic IsTeenagerListening To Music Author:Stanley Kubrick
“The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.” ThinkingLittlesArtIdeasDifferentSometimesBitsPeriodsPhotographyLittle BitArt IsAspectVideoInterfereFiniteSculptureExpressive Author:Marco Brambilla
“You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.” LongBitsPerfectRichPeriodsAverageLong Periods Of Time Author:Charlie Munger
“Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.” LittlesCharacterFilmFeltBitsPiecesPeriodsLittle BitShotsAdmireIntimateOld Fashioned Author:Nikolaj Arcel
“I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35.” Has BeensAgeBitsPeriodsGayLateMarriedAgreePubertyDevelopersLeonardo Author:David Duchovny
“The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.” LittlesCountryTodayBitsNumbersGoneMiddleRevolutionPeriodsLittle BitComplicatedEastRadicalMiddle East1960sMonarchyTurmoil Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant.” ThinkingBitsInterestingPeriodsBandStuckEvolveMidstRedundantNorwegiansInteresting Times Author:Mat McNerney
“There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.” LittlesEnergyBitsAbilityCreativityPeriodsThousandLittle BitSittingFoldsRenaissance Author:Juan Enriquez
“What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.” BelieveLittlesEndsLawSpiritCoursesHouseI BelieveFeltBitsRealizingWhiteStruggleRightsProgressJourneyPeriodsLittle BitSlaveryCivil RightsBarackRelaxWhite HouseNovemberJim CrowColonial Times Author:Questlove
“If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.” IfsLongBitsPeriodsHungryBeerPigsBetter OffStarvationBarley Author:James Cameron
“I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.” LittlesMadeLyingCertainBitsActingPeriodsLittle BitSingingLaysStrainVocal Author:Robert Davi
“When I see that the clothes are sold the day they debut in some cases, I fear we are going to kill the invisible side of fashion, the mystery. Now with the industry, it's getting a bit difficult to create any mystery. But it's quite an interesting period. It's a bit chaotic.” BitsDifficultSidesInterestingCasesMysteryFashionIndustryPeriodsClothesInvisibleChaoticDebut Author:Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
“I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I felt like they really got me. There was one person who was sort of the one in my life that really got me.In general, I felt a little bit on the outside and not totally included. There was a period of time when we were moving around a lot. So I couldn't really hold on to a certain set of friends. And so that was a little bit difficult.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLittlesPersonsMovingCertainFeltBitsDifficultPeriodsLittle BitUnderstood Author:Mahershala Ali