“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.” TryingProblemTogetherJobsThreeProcessDecisionCareersTakenPiecesWeekAmountFlowProductionsFinanceCashOnly TimeInadequatePrepsCash Flow Author:Joe Johnston
“It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.” ThinkingWritingI CanSometimesPlayRememberSoundPiecesAmountPaperShockingChanneling Author:Ryan Adams
“Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.” IfsWellsImportantPiecesAmountElementsNotesMeaningfulRhythmArtisticOrganized Author:Anthony Davis
“Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you” FeelsCharacterCertainPiecesAmountSafeSafetyCome UpGuise Author:Johnny Depp
“It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.” PeopleMeanDifferentSeemsBitsPiecesModernAmountPopulationSignificantNativeNative AmericanDnaBits And PiecesNeanderthals Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.” NeedsMeanPiecesAmountSellsConsidering Author:Paul Kane
“Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.” PeopleKnowsAnimalIssuesPiecesAmountSixEatingWelfareMeatThrowingEfficientCaloriesAnimal WelfareRecyclingThrowing AwayWastefulness Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.” KnowsWorldWayTryingChildrenWarHardCertainParentPiecesGenerationsExampleHard WorkGrewAmountGrew UpPicksEthicsIndependentWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Billy Joel
“Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.” FormViewsPiecesInformationAmountPatternsInsightPoint Of ViewRecognitionImplicit Author:Maria Popova
“I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.” YearsTwoSchoolPiecesTeamInformationFootballAmountHigh SchoolCupsLeagueUnfortunateSeniorGreeceAmerican FootballFootball TeamAthensSenior YearColts Author:Greg Kinnear