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“Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.”

People Two Certain Position Amount Privilege Billions Unusual Royal Royal Wedding

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.”

Needs Believe Fighting White Position Smart Noise Being Smart White Noise

Author:David Fincher

“The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.”

Way May Moral Position Moral Life

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Jobs Film Waiting Position Amount Scene Complicated Spots Supposed To Be Shooting Time Spent Technicians

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.”

Men Want Hard Film Girl Sex Position Direct England Males Preserves Pushing Rough Equipment Film Set

Author:Colin Firth

“If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.”

Ifs Done Enough Bigs Position Mouths Injustice

Author:Michael Caine

“I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.”

Feels Firsts Young Responsibility Accepting Roles Fans Position Huge Models Actresses Role Models Attempting

Author:Anne Hathaway

“The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.”

People Government Names Heard Position Opening Corporations Department Influential Lobbyists Pacs

Author:Ralph Nader

“My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.”

Thinking Want Needs Audience Creative Fronts Position Flow Occasions Get Better Be Creative New Music

Author:Vance Joy

“I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.”

Thinking Able Actors Can Do Successful Plans Position Amount Planning

Author:Christian Bale

“I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level.”

People Firsts Levels Talking Creative Position Calling Lucky Directors Scripts Lists

Author:Christian Bale

“I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.”

Able Remember Actors Situation Position Lucky Percent France Working It

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes.”

Want Kind Sometimes Purpose Artist Certain Actors Stars Loses Views Roles Dog Position Point Of View Singularity

Author:Bruce Dern

“My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.”

Thinking Looks Interesting Class Position Dull Working Class Mobility Upper Class

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.”

Ifs World Character Imagine Position Preparation Leap Imaginative

Author:Michael Chabon

“Most of us aren't crazy psychotics, but most of us are a whole bunch of different people. I think when you are in a position of authority, that doesn't remove that from you.”

People Thinking Different Whole Crazy Position Authority Bunch Remove Different Peoples

Author:David Hyde Pierce

“When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with acting, it's just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it's always about me.”

Character Feelings Love Is Acting Vision Position Directors Creating Weird Feeling

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.”

People Trying Wells Difficult Acting Position Hearing

Author:Oscar Isaac

“The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.”

Knows Enough Seems Loses Position Musician

Author:Danger Mouse

“If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Believe Causes Loses Careers Position

Author:Danger Mouse

“I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.”

Ifs Wanted Remember Actors Position Profession Chosen Autonomy

Author:Andrew Garfield

“Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.”

Years Shows Position Tvs Lucky Advantage Decided Sake Eight Decades Honestly Tv Shows Cartoon

Author:Mila Kunis

“Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.”

Needs Years Answers Cases Position Edges Currents Plus Messy Copyright Replacements

Author:Charles Stross

“I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is going to be a flow of energy.”

Ifs Thinking Two Actors Energy Minutes Position Flow Cameras Lighting

Author:Cristian Mungiu

“For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved and he has a tie on. But he's a real fanatic - a fanatic by definition is the one who says, if you are not with me, you are against me, and that's exactly the position he takes. The mullahs in my country, it's obvious. But a guy who says I am the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world and asks people to read the Bible and make crusades and says he's God's best friend - this guy is even more scary because you don't see it at the beginning.”

People Ifs World Looks Real Country Guy Asks President Democracy Position Definitions Obvious Scary Ties Secular This Guy Fanatics Crusades Mullahs

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but what happened in Puerto Rico never happened at all. It's not like there was a decades-long conspiracy. It's just the aggregation of all these historical forces made it difficult for this information to exist in one place.”

Long Made Happens Culture Language Force Difficult Happened Information Position Ocean Historical Decades Made It Islands Conspiracy Vegas Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Nelson Antonio Denis

“There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.”

People Writing Book Helping Wanted Decision Influence Position Decided

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.”

I Can Interest Can Do Wonderful Position Scientist Communicate Bother

Author:Alan Alda

“I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.”

Ifs Feels Wells Persons Bits Millions Position Students Painting Wall Pounds Trapped Posters

Author:Damien Hirst

“Not being in touch with your vulnerability and not learning to own it and accept it and be comfortable with it leaves you in a position where you're liable to look at and judge other people for being vulnerable because they're reflecting that part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.”

People Looks Accepting Position Judging Comfortable Vulnerable Vulnerability Reflecting Liable

Author:Shakti Gawain

“I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.”

“We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.”

Lying Situation Position Conversation Phones Nasty Ovens Bad Situations

Author:Joe Manganiello

“If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.”

Ifs Mean Doe Stills Moving Humanity Realizing Position Particular Moved Setting Settings Blast Harlem

Author:Rita Dove

“What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.”

Mind Stills Rooms Position Wall Quiet Sitting Empty Wicked Continuing Pillow Quiet Room

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Two Important Body Left Feet Teaching Position Crosses Legs Your Body Oneness Mind And Body Duality Thighs Lotuses

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.”

Way Sun Position Authority Instruments Devices Quotations Stolen Borrowed Rhetorical

Author:Justin Kaplan

“Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.”

Remember Enemy Position Stronger Comes And Goes Friends Come And Go

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.”

Doe Eye Artist Force Vision Tree Position Standing Flow Roots Depth Currents Humble Command His Eyes Crowns Overwhelmed Transmit Trunks Sap

Author:Paul Klee

“The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.”

Book Loses Too Much Position Serious Lucky Comment

Author:Bent Larsen

“Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.”

Mind Firsts Moving Position Intuition Chess Defined

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.”

Years Humans Stills Country Enough Young Spirit Purpose Nations Wish Conditions Stage Position Evolution Noble Excellent Canada Devoted Other Countries Human Spirit Flexible Centennial

Author:Lester B. Pearson

“Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers, not writers. Do powder puff, not probing interviews. Stay away from controversial subjects. Kiss ass, move with the mass, and for heaven and rating's sake, don't make anybody mad- - certainly not anybody you're covering, and especially not the mayor, the governor, the senator, the president or the vice-president or anybody in a position of power. Make nice, not news.”

“I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!”

People Thinking Way Trying Firsts Said Helping Fall Steps Path Achieve Position Lucky Advantage Good Things Prepared Speed First Steps Right Time Right Place Being There Amen

Author:Phil Hellmuth

“...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.”

Mean Stills Political Social Wealth Half Virtue Democracy Century Position Habit Vices Characteristics Englishmen Half A Century Subservience

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.”

Years Firsts Made Evil Process Boys Dog Creation Position Letting Go Female Garden Decided Doctors Rose Males Creator Legends Adam Doctor Who Phantoms Ribs Pretext Ejaculation

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.”

Position Servanthood

Author:Max De Pree

“To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.”

Persons Position Responsible Forgiven

Book:The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

Source: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

“"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."”

Men Firsts Doe Can Do Challenges Decision Position Weakness Areas Bases Encounters Executives Staffing

Author:Peter Drucker

“Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.”

Kind War Facts Political Individual Economy Position Theory Fundamentals Slavery All Kinds Maxims Free Society Laissez Faire Political Economy

Book:Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

Source: Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

“Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.”

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