“I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingTryingI CanEndsHandsBigsMy OwnCompanyImagineFiguresProduceRight NowDirectScriptsCreditChunks Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world's putting out at you.” ThinkingWorldTryingIdeasCountryKidsStuffEffortAttitudeCreativityProduceRaisesValuable Author:Adrian Tomine
“I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.” TryingUseOrderMemoriesFictionProduceBeing TrueNot Sure Author:Elia Suleiman
“I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.” WritingTryingYearsJobsFilmProduceMinimumAnimatedI Am PrettyAnimated MoviesAnimated Films Author:David X. Cohen
“I'm going to try to do as many styles as I can. A salsa number, rock and roll, country.... I've talked to a million people about it. Obviously, I'd love Prince to do it. I'm sure he'll produce the whole album for me.” PeopleTryingI CanCountryWholeNumbersMillionsRocksStyleProduceAlbumsRock And RollSalsa Author:Paul Reubens
“We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.” PeopleNeedsTryingAbleTechnologyProduceAmountFuelCracked Author:Richard Branson
“I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.” TryingYearsFirstsWellsTogetherAmericaHalfWonderfulShareLandProduceConceptsDecidedDiedExperimentsWorking ItCommunistPilgrimComing To America Author:Ted Cruz
“We all want survival, safety, security, peace, prosperity, opportunity, health, happiness, and love. Yet we seem utterly unable to produce it for any but the tiniest minority of us - even after trying for thousands of years.” WantTryingYearsSeemsOpportunitySecurityProduceSurvivalAnd LoveSafetyProsperityMinoritiesHappiness And Love Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.” IfsWritingTryingRecordsWeekProduceResearchIf I CouldEpisodesEdits Author:Karina Longworth
“Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.” TryingSelfWould BeCertainNumbersProduceDisciplineIdealsBest WorkImposingTimetables Author:Chinua Achebe
“I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You can do this very successfully on one strict condition: never try to force the piano to produce the sounds of the violin. This will be grotesque.” KnowsTryingLiteratureForceSoundCan DoConditionsProducePianoStrictTranslationsViolinGrotesque Author:Amos Oz
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.” KnowsWritingTryingHardWantedArtistSongStuffSoundMy OwnProduceMaterialsNormalSingingSongwritersGoing To WorkTwistsJustinDig DeepGeneric Author:Karl Wolf
“People just want to see something happen that is positive for them in their lives. If you're struggling to pay your student-loan debts, or if you've got a kid trying to go to college and don't think you're going to be able to afford it, it really matters whether you get help or not. If you don't have health care or you have insurance but the insurance company won't pay for what your doctor says you need, then what's the point of people arguing in Washington? Why don't you give me some help to fix this problem? I will work with anybody if I think we can actually produce results for people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingTryingMatterHelpingProblemHappensCareKidsAbleResultsPayCompanyStruggleStudentsProduceCollegeDoctorsGive MeDebtArguingThings HappenHealth CareLoanInsurance CompaniesStudent Loan Author:Hillary Clinton
“Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.” TryingLongMovingNamesDifferencesKnownSeaProduceChineseBassMarketersPeddlerChileans Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.” GivingTryingPersonsActorsProduceListeningAlways Trying Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.” TryingProduceEatingRaisedPortionsProtein Author:Norman Reedus
“The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.” TryingArtBeautifulNumbersWonderfulDesignProducePaintingMinimumStrokesRefinementBeautiful Paintings Author:David Rockefeller
“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.” IfsTryingCultureFoodProduceEmptyInternationalExcellentSubstitutesCigarStumpsMatchboxes Author:Norman Douglas
“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.” NeedsWritingTryingHumansWellsMayBodyAgeRememberLyingCertainOrderForgetRoomsEffortProduceNeededTerribleBedProveIntellectualRootsMarkCurrentsBoringSmellMeaningfulContemporaryAtmosphereApplesScholarDesksScentComfortingHuman BodyNeed YouConfinedComposingPerversionOdorRottingVenerationDeodorantStalemate Book:A Confederacy of Dunces Source: A Confederacy of Dunces