“I've been so blessed and so lucky to be a part of great shows like 'Chuck' and projects 'Daybreak.'” ShowsLuckyProjectsBlessedChuckSo LuckyDaybreak Author:Ryan McPartlin
“Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.” PeopleHumansSometimesShowsSocialCommonRaceShareProjectsArguingSillyGenesConstructsGenomeGenome ProjectHuman Genome Project Author:J. Philippe Rushton
“It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.” ShowsDreamTodayLastsThreeProjectsMethodDecadesFormal Author:Hilary Putnam
“We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.” YearsShowsFilmGamesSoundMissingTelevisionProjectsCreatingTwentiesVideoPassingPassingsBobSixtyShockedSeventiesTelevision ShowsGreat FriendSaddenedCollaboratingFilm And Television Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“To do panels where you get to interact with your fans, in a really intimate, awesome way, and to let them ask all of the questions, is fun to me and it shows them that you care about their opinions, their thoughts, and their passion for your project.” WayShowsCarePassionAsksFunOpinionFansProjectsIntimate Author:Zachary Levi
“I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.” YearsShowsWantedMovingActingCareersCollegeProjectsEncouragementFinalsUniversityProfessionPursuitPursueProfessorsOne WomanSophomoreSophomore YearDeacons Author:April Parker Jones
“With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.” PeopleMenI CanDifferentWholeUseShowsFilmAbilityPlayerTeamProjectsPassionateDifferent ThingsOne ManTeam Player Author:Ice Cube
“I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time.” ThinkingMenDoneShowsPerfectInterestingProjectsEternalSunshineAlmightyFind MeReally InterestingTrumanEternal SunshineTruman Show Author:Jim Carrey
“Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up. Just the concept of "I had this idea" and within a week it was in the world, that was a part of why it felt weirdly empowering as a performer.” IfsWorldYearsLongIdeasShowsFeltAirWeekTelevisionProjectsConceptsEmpoweringPerformers Author:Chris Hardwick
“In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything.” WorldBookShowsTypeProjectsLibraryUniversityPermitAmbitiousGoogleHarvardCopyrightQueries Author:Robert Darnton
“I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project. The project that influenced me the most is this cooking show I do online. I film it all myself, and I think making so many of those gave me the confidence that all I need is a camera, and I could go and do an interview. The freedom to be a filmmaker - you just need a camera.” ThinkingNeedsLongShowsFilmPassionEnergyCrazySubjectsAmountProjectsCamerasCookingFilmmakerInterviewsOnlineLove MakingCooking Shows Author:Tamra Davis
“I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.” ShowsRealityWatchesFashionTelevisionProjectsReality ShowsRunwayProject Runway Author:Kelly Wearstler
“My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.” PeopleWorldShowsFeelingsTogetherGoalAchieveTvsProjectsDrawsMy FavoriteAll TimeWorking TogetherTv ShowsWireFavorite Tv Shows Author:Michael Schur
“Diane Coffee is just the part of me that has always been a performer. It's something that's always been there and Diane Coffee is just the name I've given her for this project. But I was always the one who would raid mom's closet and get all dressed up and put on crazy weird shows in the living room or film little movies.” LittlesShowsFilmNamesGivenRoomsCrazyMomProjectsCoffeePerformersClosetsLiving RoomDressed Up Author:Shaun Fleming
“Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.” WayCharacterShowsJobsFilmTvsHigherProjectsApproachPagesScriptsLiftsBudgetsTv Shows Author:Michael Eklund
“Any time you do a project you never really know how people are going to take it especially on TV. I think they used to be more forgiving with shows.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsUsedKnow HowTvsProjectsForgivingUsed To Be Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.” IfsWantFirstsStillsI CanShowsTogetherDiesNamesMy OwnCompanyStageTvsRight NowProjectsProductionsTv ShowsFunny Or DieTeaming Up Author:Dave Franco
“When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a television show out of this? This is something that belongs in the conversation. Certainly that's what interests me about a project.” MadePlayStoriesShowsInterestFrontsTelevisionConversationProjectsTelevision Shows Author:John Sayles
“It's nice to make a project where you can show the full breadth of who you are.” ShowsNiceProjectsWho You AreBreadth Author:Micah Lexier
“I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.” ShowsTelevisionTasteProjectsRunwayGirlyProject Runway Author:David Nevins
“TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.” KindI CanShowsLightNightFocusTvsProjectsFortunateFridayFriday NightNight LightFriday Night Lights Author:Emily Rios
“Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.” ShouldWholeShowsBodyAttitudePersonalityProjectsPunk Author:Billy Idol
“Passion is so contagious. When you're working on a project where people care, on every level, from the key grips to the main writer to the star of the show, you can't help but want to jump on board and create something.” PeopleWantHelpingShowsCarePassionStarsLevelsKeysProjectsBoardsContagious Author:Seth Gabel
“A robust internal auditing program shows its presence both at the beginning and end of continual improvement projects. In the beginning, internal audits identify opportunities for improvement, at the end, internal audits provide a mechanism for monitoring the implemented improvement in order to sustain its benefits for the long term.” LongEndsShowsOrderOpportunityTermBenefitsProjectsProgramImprovementLong TermInternalsMechanismRobustMonitoringBeginnings And EndsContinual Improvement Author:John Novak
“The scheduling thing is really weird with TV shows. Certain projects haven't been able to work out because of the schedule, so some of it is out of your control. You don't have very many opportunities. There isn't much time, so you want to make sure you're going to be doing something that you really feel good about or that you're going to have a good creative experience doing. You're taking up vacation time from your job, so you want it to be meaningful.” WantFeelsShowsAbleJobsCertainOpportunityCreativeHavensTvsProjectsWork OutMeaningfulFeel GoodVacationTv ShowsSchedulesDoing YouReally WeirdSchedulingVacation Time Author:Ty Burrell
“I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.” WantTryingIdeasShowsEnergyProjectsMusicalAlbumsTranslate Author:Lunice
“The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.” YearsStillsFactsShowsTvsProjectsPressesNewspapersMagazinesExhibitsThirteenTimelessnessThirteen Year Olds Author:Peter Menzel
“Also, when we did "Smallville," we didn't have an opportunity to interact with people who watched the show. And see what they had to say and listen to criticism and listen to praise at the same time. So a lot of this is a new experience and it's very interesting and rewarding for us. I think we get honest feedback. You get hate. You get a lot of love as well. And I'm actually very curious what people think of the show. For us, it's been a passion project of ours, and an incredibly challenging show to make.” PeopleThinkingWellsShowsHatePassionOpportunityChallengesInterestingHonestProjectsCriticismPraiseCuriousHate YouFeedbackVery InterestingNew ExperiencesHonest Feedback Author:Miles Millar
“I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.” PeopleKindDifferentShowsRocksInvolvedBandProjectsHip HopSellingHipsHopsDifferent KindsJam Author:Boots Riley
“My most recent project has been acting and dancing on VH1's TV series Hit the Floor. On the show, we perform at least one dance number an episode. They are all different themes and different dance styles and keep us literally on our toes. The show is exuberant, exciting, and full of scandal. Tune in and I know you'll get addicted.” KnowsHas BeensDifferentShowsNumbersActingStyleTvsProjectsExcitingDancingSeriesThemeTunesEpisodesToesScandalTv Series Author:Allison Holker
“I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me.” WayStillsShowsLastsUsedThreeActorsFoundMovementComfortProjectsUsed To BeMy WayNaziPrecision Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects.” WritingShowsFilmMy OwnActingTvsProjectsGratefulTv ShowsSo Grateful Author:Kyle Cassie
“I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at the Angel Island theatre space. We did the show, an adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was hardcore Grimm - nothing was sanitized - and it was called 'The Mary-Arrchie Kid's Show.' It was well-received, and so I applied to do it through Urban Gateways in Chicago.” FirstsWellsChildrenEnoughShowsKidsWantedSpaceProjectsAngelTheatreTalesIslandsFairyChicagoFairy TaleMaryUrbanAdaptationHardcoreGatewaysGrimm Author:Richard Cotovsky
“And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning.” PeopleShouldTryingKindShowsWould BeCan DoLeaderVisionStageTvsProductsDirectorsProjectsSeriesTv Shows Author:Brian Henson
“I was very combative as a creative person at that time [while The Ben Stiller Show]. I didn't understand how to play politics with the studios. I didn't know how to creatively collaborate with the people who were paying the bills, and that came up all the time on every project I was doing, and it took me a really long time to figure out how to collaborate in a healthy way.” PeopleKnowsWayPersonsLongPlayShowsKnow HowCreativeFiguresHealthyProjectsLong TimeBillsStudiosCreative PersonReally Long Author:Judd Apatow
“The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.” PeopleYearsFirstsDoneShowsWaitingBlackParticularProjectsTheaterTeenagerChicagoSustainingStrawberriesCreeksBerkeley Author:Robert Hass
“Bring different groups together internally, send them out to visit other companies, or bring in interesting speeches. Show that you love learning by having people on staff whose job it is to explore without any near-term metrics. Publicly shut a project down and talk about what a great job a team did because they learned so much. And so on.” PeopleDifferentShowsTogetherJobsTermInterestingCompanyGroupsTeamSpeechProjectsDown AndStaffGreat JobMetrics Author:Scott D. Anthony
“When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.” IfsShowsMightWonderfulTelevisionProjectsMediumsTelevision Shows Author:Justin Hartley
“I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there - any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog. I'm just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.” YearsArtShowsRoomsPayHalfOne DayProjectsChineseBoardsGermanyPreparingDocumentariesBlogsEighteenArtworkPassportsHalf A YearEighteen Years Old Author:Ai Weiwei
“Sometimes I will give some very vague directions to the designer that I'm working with on a particular project and they'll come back and surprise me with something that really shows a lot of their own 'hand' in it. Other times I'll have a really clear idea about how I want it done and I'll draw it out pretty precisely and say 'make it look exactly like this' and it will be something where it looks like I can say it was 'fully my design'. The work can also range between the two.” WantGivingLooksI CanTwoIdeasSometimesDoneShowsHandsClearDesignParticularProjectsDrawsSurpriseRangeDesignerVagueSurprise Me Author:Michael Bierut
“At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries.” PeopleImportantCountryShowsChallengesEconomicBenefitsProjectsOur CountryInequalityContinuingIntegrationFacing ChallengesEconomic Integration Author:Barack Obama
“If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.” IfsGivingBookShowsProjects Author:Simon Sinek
“Donald Trump has a bunch of people who have been able to find the money they need for projects that they wanted to do and succeed at them and show a profit at the same time, and everybody involved wins.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensShowsAbleWantedWinningTrumpInvolvedSucceedProjectsProfitBunch Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert or service project or just about anything else. So we were thinking, we're stepping into some unknown territory here that could be as profitable, or it could be a box-office flop, but there was a rightness about it. And so this whole idea of the war room being like a spiritual warfare room, a place of prayer where you get alone with God and you're making your decisions and you're dealing with your issues first in prayer.” PeopleThinkingFirstsIdeasWarWholeShowsSpiritualDifficultChurchPrayerDecisionRoomsIssuesOfficeProjectsMeetingsBoxesConcertsTerritoryWarfareProfitableSpiritual WarfareBox OfficePrayer MeetingAlone With God Author:Stephen Kendrick
“I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may have been Camus's attitude, but it was certainly not that of Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, each of whom tried to show that we can only experience the world in relation to our own projects and purposes. The world is initially one of 'equipment', said Heidegger: it is a world of 'tasks', said Sartre.” WorldHumansMayHas BeensSaidShowsPurposeHuman BeingsAttitudeProjectsTasksRelationFamiliarEquipmentMisunderstandingAlienationRelishExistentialistHeidegger Author:David E. Cooper
“I was sad when the show [Defiance] got canceled. It was heartbreaking for all of us involved. It was definitely a project that everyone involved poured their heart and soul into. But we had three good years, which is, you know, three more years than most shows get.” KnowsYearsHeartSoulShowsThreeInvolvedProjectsHeart And SoulDefianceHeartbreakingGood Years Author:Julie Benz
“I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsBelieveKindI CanCharacterShowsActionTogetherFunFoolProjectsPaidIncentives Author:Elmore Leonard
“It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.” PeopleMenWayTryingShowsFeelingsEasyProjectsTraditionFollowingInnocentEducatedAshamedAcceptableElitistVilifyAfrican Women Author:Wangari Maathai