“I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation."” GivingJobsEvilActorsNationsBlackPiecesBirthJunkGangstersDefenders Author:Ishmael Reed
“Yes it is true that pro-capitalist forces have a lot of power. But so did slave-holding racists. We give ourselves hope when we conceptualize capitalism as a set of practices that can be challenged by fighting the piece of the puzzle we feel most compelled to fight.” GivingFeelsFightingForcePracticePiecesCapitalismSlaveRacistCapitalistPuzzlesCompelled Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.” IfsWayPlayFilmWorryPiecesBalanceElementsNegativeAspectStrongerAddBest WayVillain Author:Alec Baldwin
“When you making a piece of comedy entertainment, the audience is a big component there. You do have to end up getting rid of things that you love, but in the interest of making a movie that's not longer than two hours, and in the interest of when every joke hopefully is good enough, then everybody looks good. You cut things that you love, but ultimately it's for the greater good of making the whole movie better.” LooksTwoEndsEnoughWholeBigsInterestHoursAudienceComedyGreaterPiecesCuttingJokesEntertainmentHopefullyGood EnoughComponentsGreater Good Author:Jason H. Moore
“People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.” PeopleMadeHardCreativePiecesFitChaosMade It Author:Elliott Smith
“We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.” BodyCommunityPiecesTeachingFitEasierGayLuckyTraditionGenderSexualityAffirmationJewish CommunityAnti GayJewish Tradition Author:Jay Michaelson
“I still use a lot of cut-ups, I physically cut-up pieces of paper and stick them all together on another piece of paper then I'll think, "Ah, that looks good," or shuffle them around a bit and then I'll photocopy it and then that's my lyrics.” ThinkingLooksStillsUseTogetherBitsPiecesCuttingPaperSticksShuffle Author:Thighpaulsandra
“I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions.” BelieveI CanIdeasPlayMovingFormPoliticalGamesI BelieveUnderstandingPiecesFunctionStrategySpectrumPolitical Spectrum Author:Bocafloja
“What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy waves. These energy waves could be a Tweet about something you are furious about, like the Keystone Pipeline, or a piece of legislation. Instantly, energy surrounds and adds traction, influence, making it come alive” EnergySocialRealizingTechnologyPiecesAliveInfluenceMediaAddWaveSocial MediaSurroundEntityLegislationTweetFuriousPipelineKeystonesTractionKeystone Pipeline Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Within hours, tweetted piece of information you've just doled out has become a monsoon, a hurricane of tangible energy that is literally circulating the world. It's helped me sense the undeniable truth of quantum consciousness, the whole butterfly effect. I witness it daily. Being witness to it not only makes me come alive, it enables me to maintain hope.” WorldWholeEnergyHoursConsciousnessPiecesAliveEffectsInformationWitnessButterflyQuantumHurricanesTangibleMonsoonsButterfly Effect Author:Ian Somerhalder
“You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?” ShouldEndsTurnsPiecesThe End Of The Day Author:David Bowie
“I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war and about the country at that time that I'd collected over the years and, of course, I'm comfortable in the woods, so, finally, it just all feel into place.” FeelsWritingYearsI CanWarCountryCoursesBitsPiecesInformationRevolutionComfortableWoodsAmerican RevolutionBits And Pieces Author:Gary Paulsen
“One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.” ThinkingEndsFeelingsPiecesHearingEndlessFraudTouring Author:Squarepusher
“My plan is if you come to the shows in the first run of dates the versions you'll hear live are quite close to the record. But because I can set this up identically afterwards in a hotel room I can actually work when I'm on the move. The aim is that all the pieces will have had substantial remixes and different parts added and subtracted.” IfsFirstsI CanDifferentShowsRunningMovingRoomsRecordsPiecesPlansAimVersionsHotelBecause I CanHotel RoomsRemix Author:Squarepusher
“One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.” HardAttitudePiecesAlbumsMy AttitudeLayoutSequencing Author:Squarepusher
“Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.” PeopleKnowsHelpingCoursesPiecesProduceComputerMachinesSoftwareLiteracyFluentComputer Literacy Author:Seymour Papert
“Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job.” IfsShouldUseJobsGoalAbilityPiecesComputerSoftware Author:Seymour Papert
“I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8" on it. I love working on them. I can't fix a computer or a car, but I can fix a typewriter. I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you're fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote.” WritingStillsI CanNightNextMorningPiecesCarFiguresComputerLateTapeTypewriters Author:Eddie Vedder
“I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.” WorldBodyTogetherCultureLanguagePiecesThis WorldBrokenDiseaseSickDictatorshipGrotesque Author:Kim Hyesoon
“You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.” PiecesTrackEightChessBoardsHatefulScenarios Author:Quentin Tarantino
“If it's too much for people, if audiences don't accept it, well I guess that's just the way it is. I'm not being cavalier when it comes to my financial partners, but I think I've earned the right to do my thing my way. While I really want it to do well and it would be lovely if it's popular, movies are for a long time. I'm really proud of the piece. If it ends up not connecting with audiences, I won't be heartbroken. I'll be a little disappointed, but I won't be heartbroken.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantWellsLittlesLongEndsWould BeAcceptingAudienceToo MuchPiecesProudLong TimeFinancialPartnersLovelyMy WayDisappointedHeartbrokenConnectingPopular Movie Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children.” ThinkingWantChildrenGovernmentCarePoorEffortPayPiecesSixPercentDisabledChild CareDisabled Children Author:Edward Zigler
“I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.” WantFirstsBookBrainPiecesChildhoodTaughtMonthsComplexesPianoTapeSurgeryDisturbingListening To MusicClassical MusicBrain Surgery Author:Rosanne Cash
“We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.” WorldGivingTogetherAbilityPiecesHappenedHappeningsLogicalRemembranceContinuity Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“I like making series, for a couple reasons. One, the repetition of routine is very healthy because I can get a little crazy; I want to be making things all the time. And if I publish something every week, I don't have to put every idea I have into one piece. It's more like, here's one idea: execute it, see it through, think about it, do it the best you can. And then there are going to be ten more ideas that come while you're making that, because creativity works that way.” IfsThinkingWayWantLittlesI CanIdeasReasonCreativityPiecesWeekCrazyCoupleHealthyTenSeriesRoutineRepetitionPublishBecause I CanOne Piece Author:Paul Madonna
“The thing about how that process works is that it's more about the editing and time for judging the ideas. Most pieces I publish each week have been around for months. This is a response to the beginning of the strip, when I was making them so quickly. I would just conceive a piece, finish it, and then the next day see it in the paper. That was when I was doing dailies four days a week.” Has BeensIdeasNextProcessPiecesFourWeekJudgingMonthsPaperResponseEditingNext DayPublish Author:Paul Madonna
“I set up a system for myself where I work on a lot of pieces at once. I'll switch between them and keep working on a piece until it comes together, and then I'll publish it. This way some pieces can take a year if they need to. The trick is to just make sure one is ready every week.” IfsWayNeedsYearsTogetherPiecesWeekReadyTricksPublish Author:Paul Madonna
“I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.” PeopleWantHelpingTogetherPiecesGuidanceEmpoweringKeep Going Author:Echo Bodine
“I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.” WantPiecesPhilosophicalScientific KnowledgeReally True Author:William Shatner
“It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.” PeoplePiecesExciting Author:Peter Webber
“Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.” LittlesBookMillionsPiecesAgentsRelatedExpectingBullshitPublishersMillion Little Pieces Author:James Frey
“In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.” WayWritingDifficultPiecesStageVery Happy Author:PJ Harvey
“Well, there's lots of different things going on at the moment, I'm in talks with some people from Japan to do something and I'm also talking to Hugo Boss to do a very small line, which I want to keep to just 10-12 pieces, but what I want to do is sit with the designers for a couple of days bashing some stuff out.” PeopleWantWellsDifferentMomentsStuffLinesTalkingPiecesCoupleDesignerJapanDifferent ThingsBoss Author:Jay Kay
“My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.” ThinkingUsedPiecesHigherPaperComputerStandardsHarderUsed To BeMake SensePrintScratches Author:Dean Wareham
“When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.” PersonsCertainVoiceInterestingPiecesPossibilityVery InterestingPenetrateInner VoiceResonance Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen
“The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.” ThinkingSometimesStoriesPiecesWonderfulScaredGhostOverlookedGhost StoriesChangelings Author:Stephen King
“Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.” PeopleEndsDoneHandsFilmAudiencePiecesReadyFlowerArmsHorrorCome UpMonstersGravesReactionsShockCarrieSomething NewRoofTerrificAmyMost AmazingHorror FilmBrian Author:Stephen King
“When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.” FirstsWarEndsHomeTogetherMotherPiecesDoorsFieldsPicksDaughterStonesDestroyedMother And DaughterHaul Author:Zainab Salbi
“A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.” GivingOrderPieces Author:Toni Morrison
“Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in The Incoherence of the Philosophers against the very idea of laws of nature, on the ground that any such laws would put God's hands in chains. According to al-Ghazzali, a piece of cotton placed in a flame does not darken and smoulder because of the heat, but because God wants it to darken and smoulder. After al-Ghazzali, there was no more science worth mentioning in Islamic countries.” WantDoeIdeasCountryHandsLawPiecesCenturyFiguresIslamPhilosopherChainsFlamesHeatIslamicAlsAlasLaws Of NatureInfluentialCottonIncoherence Author:Steven Weinberg
“Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.” FirstsPiecesWrittenEncouragementComposerMarvellousInfantile Author:Richard Rodney Bennett
“Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it was so that she could see what was on the other side, but really, it was so that she wouldn't have to look at herself. That, and because she thought she might be able to steal a piece of glass when no one was looking, and use it to carve her heart out of her chest.” LooksHeartUseMightAbleWantedGirlSidesPiecesMirrorsGlassesStealingChestsFistsOnce Upon A Time Book:Handle with Care: A Novel Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.” FilmBitsEnjoyDifferencesPiecesCinema Author:Nick Frost
“It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.” WorldWayFeelsMindEyePastNightBitsMemoriesPiecesFrontsBrokenSpeciesPainfulUglyNostalgiaGuiltyDullWeedBuriedDisplayNurtureVeinsInsomniaJunkFadedHeadacheGarageKindlesDeep WithinCellarsPush UpsPainful PastGarage Sale Author:Adam Young
“Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.” MadePiecesMusicianThemeSpokesMisunderstoodRaptureRachmaninoffPaganini Author:Joni Mitchell
“I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldFirstsDreamLastsLeftPiecesMiddleOceanClingingDriftwood Author:Kevin Costner
“If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions.” PeopleIfsFirstsPiecesAdviceCookingBoxesReachingIngredientsRecipesOne PieceCookbookBetty Crocker Author:Grant Achatz
“I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.” IfsArtMadeMatterHardArtistThreePiecesTomorrowDiedRemembered Author:Tracey Emin
“I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the UK. I'd been in the film Breaking and Entering - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to LA, during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing Gossip Girl, and I auditioned, and things came together.” MadeTogetherFilmGirlBitsActingPiecesMissingSeasonsDevelopingGossipPilotsEnteringBits And PiecesGossip GirlBreaking And Entering Author:Ed Westwick