“I like drawing most everything I see, but sometimes the light will hit something in a certain way that I just cannot capture the thing the way I would like with a drawing, so I think taking a picture might be the way to document what I am seeing better.” ThinkingWaySometimesLightMightCertainSeeingDrawingCaptureDocuments Author:Jason Polan
“I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my own way of doing things. I've cut it back over the years, but some of the descriptions can still be still pretty dense. So the answer is somewhere between fairly detailed and maybe too detailed. Fortunately, people are seeing the final pages and not my raw script.” PeopleWayYearsStillsUsedMy OwnAnswersCuttingSeeingPagesFinalsScriptsDetailsWork OutDescriptionDenseHedging Author:James Vance
“And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.” PeopleKnowsCountryBigsYoungSeeingDangerGayHappeningsScaryEducatedBritainFrighteningCatchingHivGay People Author:Elton John
“One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.” WorldWarHomeMotherSongBoysSeeingFolksDestroyedWar Of The WorldsCivil WarBrownComing HomeCoveredBobWorld War IDylanAbolitionistFolk SongsJohn Brown Author:Quentin Tarantino
“There are so many kinds of different feelings - not good feelings - going on in the room, and he comes in with so much compassion. He's a straight talker and pulls them into what feels like a really positive action-struggle kind of feeling. Without seeing that, you might have all kinds of judgments or feelings about what might go on in a place like that. But it felt akin to a spiritual healing more than I could have possibly anticipated.” FeelsKindDifferentFeelingsMightActionSpiritualFeltRoomsHealingCompassionStruggleSeeingGoes OnJudgmentAll KindsSpiritual HealingTalkersGood FeelingReally PositiveDifferent Feelings Author:John H Richardson
“I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.” WorldWritingHomeHappensNextStuffSeeingDown AndGoing OutNoticingGoing Home Author:Pam Houston
“So many of the stories are about perspective and viewpoint. It's not just about seeing and revelation. The idea of having many different stories from many different perspectives has something to do with me trying to deal with the impossibility of having a wide enough view to say anything really convincing on that scale.” TryingIdeasDifferentEnoughStoriesViewsDealsSeeingPerspectiveWideScalesRevelationsSay AnythingImpossibilityConvincingViewpointsDifferent Perspective Author:Lucy Corin
“You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.” SeeingComfortThousandSurpriseRevelations Author:Lucy Corin
“We`re seeing something fairly remarkable happen on the political train. We`re seeing the Washington establishment abandoning Marco Rubio. I think they`ve made the determination that Marco can`t win. And they`re rushing to support Donald Trump.” ThinkingMadeHappensPoliticalWinningSupportSeeingTrumpDeterminationTrainRemarkableEstablishmentRushingCan't WinMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindSeeingAdventureMy TimeBack WhenSeeing The World Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.” MenWayHas BeensWarMightSidesEnemySawsSeeingPhotographySoldierShootingVietnamKillersMight Have BeenVietnameseAmerican SoldierViet Cong Author:Jamel Shabazz
“A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.” ActorsSeeingReactingGreat Actors Author:Shailene Woodley
“You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.” StatesFilmSeeingNew YorkBuildingLatterEmpiresRealisticStarbucksEmpire State BuildingEmpire State Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.” PeopleSeeing Author:Leni Zumas
“I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.” ThinkingI CanSeemsMovingUsedImagineSeeingTreeSittingKillingAwfulRoughHuntingDoing NothingDeerDeer Hunting Author:Joel Stein
“I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. I was really resistant to do the mini-bible. So I gave them something, but I really didn't want to do it that way.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingStoriesSeeingScriptsAriseHorriblePlotAmazonOutliningWriting Scripts Author:Whit Stillman
“I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into place or not, each year, for each book, has made me a little more tranquil about the process for my own book than I might otherwise be.” YearsLittlesMadeBookPlayMightFallStuffProcessMy OwnBehindsPiecesPlansSeeingSceneMarketingPublicityTranquilBehind The ScenesFall Into Place Author:Danielle Dutton
“Festivals become a family because you start seeing the same people.” PeopleSeeingFestivals Author:Philipp Wolter
“I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.” KnowsHandsTalkingPiecesSeeingArmsMeetingsEightTortureSurvivorPrisonerCampsHolocaustThreadTattooNeedlesHolocaust SurvivorAbu GhraibNeedle And Thread Author:Jill Soloway
“I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised by the panic I've felt, especially at first, when we'd put an issue to bed and then realized we had to put another one together.” ThinkingFirstsKindTogetherUsedReadingFoundFeltPleasureFictionIssuesSeeingBedExpectedPanic Author:Lorin Stein
“I'm totally a narcissist, so I was doing all this performance and having lots of weird ego time, and learning to set aside my love for the ego and find a deeper love for myself and through that seeing myself as one with all beings. And through loving myself, loving all people in the world, that was my cure for narcissism, the only cure.” PeopleWorldSeeingEgoPerformancesDeeperCuresNarcissismNarcissistLoving MyselfDeeper Love Author:Larkin Grimm
“You've got to deal with the world with all of its troubles, while you've still got this alternate image. It's not about being in a different place or being in heaven, it's about seeing the world through magical eyes for a moment, and then being back in that same world, and everything is dull and gray. Having to remember the color.” WorldStillsDifferentMomentsEyeRememberHeavenDealsSeeingTroubleColorDullGrayDifferent PlaceSeeing The World Author:Larkin Grimm
“"eL Seed" was inspired by the French play Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. It was seeing "Le Cid" coming from the Arabic name "el sayed," which means "the master, the man." So I called myself like that because I was 16; I said, "Yes, I'm the man." That's how it started.” MenMeanSaidPlayNamesSeeingHe ManMastersInspiredSeeds Author:eL Seed
“I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as a form of humor. I don't think of myself as narcissistic, but I'm definitely incredibly self absorbed. I guess I wonder if seeing the world through the lens of yourself is necessarily less valid than other ways of thinking/seeing though.” IfsThinkingWorldWayIdeasSelfUseFormWonderSeeingAdmireNarcissismLensesWay Of ThinkingNarcissisticSeeing The WorldSelf Absorbed Author:Marie Calloway
“There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsMindLongArtI CanAbleFilmUsedValuesTermNovelSeeingChangedLike YouBecomingLong TimeTrainingExpectationsAngryPhonesCellsAcquireConcentrationDedicationYoutubeCell PhoneBecoming MoreClipImmediacy Author:Adrian Tomine
“The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."” PeopleThinkingFirstsSaidI CanWholeRememberFacesReadingAudienceSeeingFirst TimeIntroductionWhisperingSigningUgh Author:Adrian Tomine
“I just want to see around beautiful things. I don't realise how much I miss out on just seeing beautiful scenery.” WantBeautifulSeeingMissingRealisingBeautiful ThingsSceneryBeautiful Scenery Author:Alana Haim
“In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.” BelieveMayDoeWholeHappensI BelieveSeeingTvsMythWhole LifeDisgusting Author:Mary Roach
“One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksRealCharacterActionFilmGoalMistakeLordAudienceEnvironmentSeeingDesignComputerMy FavoriteRingsRealismFavorites ThingsKung FuAction FilmsPandasKung Fu PandaCharacter Design Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.” KindLittlesRememberBitsSeeingLittle BitSurpriseNervousDisguiseSecrecyFittingShowing UpRunwayPajamasValentino Author:Owen Wilson
“I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".” PeopleFeelsFirstsKindPersonsEndsThreeLeftFourSeeingMonthsBoredRomeRidingHelloBicycleSingle PersonUgh Author:Owen Wilson
“In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.” ThinkingChurchSeeingRomeMatthewSt Matthew Author:Owen Wilson
“For me personally, Blink-182 has been a big influence. Just seeing them way back in the day play little shows and start from a garage band to where they are now, makes me believe anything is possible if you truly want it and commit your life to it.” IfsWayWantBelieveLittlesHas BeensPlayShowsBigsSeeingInfluenceBandCommitGarageBlinkAnything Is PossibleBack In The DayBlink 182 Author:Beau Bokan
“We're used to seeing fantasy explored from a male perspective, and the way men might see sex, have sex, want sex and even be addicted to sex. But I don't think women pursuing that sexuality within themselves is something that's talked about or experienced as often.” ThinkingMenWayWantMightUsedSexFantasySeeingPerspectiveMalesSexuality Author:Tasha Smith
“Just the desire to play a mom, wanting to play someone actually closer to who I am and where I am in my life. People are used to seeing me play the single, hot girl, which has been fun, but at the same time, this role is more akin to my natural proclivities.” PeopleHas BeensPlayUsedDesireGirlFunNaturalRolesSeeingMomHotWho I AmHot Girl Author:Essence Atkins
“I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsFirstsLittlesSaidI CanCountrySometimesHardHappensRememberHateChurchPowerfulSeeingStageSittingInspiredEdgesBurningSatLionsSantaRiotDetroitBarbaraVistasUnitarianSanta BarbaraUnitarian Church Author:Sam Hamill
“Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better.” ChildrenLittlesMomentsThreeActorsWinningSeeingBabyPerformancesMarkMy FavoriteAwardsBottlesThree TimesCapsInquisitiveGreat PerformanceAward Winning Author:Graham Shiels
“I love to be by the ocean and have always done my best thinking by the sea. The ebb and flow is like a brain massage and very calming. I am also inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.” ThinkingWellsKindDoneBrainKindnessSeeingSeaOceanFlowInspiredBe KindMassageCalmingTouch MeEbb And Flow Author:Roma Downey
“Seeing how many people in our world today are focused on doing good in this world for others, especially in the younger generation and how passionate they feel about making a difference. What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each other.” PeopleWorldFeelsHelpingTodayDifferencesSeeingGenerationsThis WorldInspirePassionateFocusedHelping OthersGenerousMaking A DifferenceOur WorldDoing GoodWorld TodayYounger Generation Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news. The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. The bottom line is we all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.” PeopleWantLooksUseTodayTermNaturalLinesNumbersSeeingProductsHealthyApproachNewsHollywoodAgingBottomLifestyleVersionsStayingMeaninglessBottom LineHealthy LifestyleOld News Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“Seeing my children in the morning as they come down from their bedrooms makes my heart come alive. There's just no better moment in my day.” HeartChildrenMomentsMorningAliveSeeingMy HeartMy ChildrenBedroom Author:Kevin Griffin
“If you have appreciation for life, whether it is a planet or any wild species, if it's a human or an elephant, death is really bad for all of us to adjust to. We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level.” IfsWayHumansHappensDiesLevelsSeeingCrimePlanetsHighestSpeciesAppreciationElephantsInhumanDrastic Author:Veronika Varekova
“Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Long Beach, which have made these investments in their infrastructure, are seeing not only health advantages, but also a lot more exchange in the community, which leads to better policy-making and stronger communities.” LongMadeCommunityCitiesSeeingPolicyAdvantageStrongerInvestmentBeachInfrastructureSeattlePortlandPolicy MakingLong Beach Author:Ben Sollee
“I come alive by giving back, seeing my children smile and hearing them laugh, standing up for things I believe in, achieving a goal, being there for those who need me, spending quality time with my husband, and indulging in "me moments," whether it's a vacation or just a night out with friends.” NeedsGivingBelieveChildrenMomentsNightI BelieveGoalQualityLaughingAliveSeeingAchieveHusbandStandingI Believe InHearingSpendingMy ChildrenMy HusbandVacationGiving BackBeing ThereQuality Time Author:Trista Sutter
“Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking at extraordinary art, or being in nature. More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!” ArtLightSportsChallengesSeeingSonAnd LoveExtraordinaryStartingSomething NewMy SonConcertsLight UpStarting A Business Author:Amber Valletta
“Grateful that it brought me to a point of really seeing myself and really seeing where I was imbalanced, and really seeing it was a message from the Divine that changed my life.” SeeingChangedDivineMessagesGratefulChanged My Life Author:Brad Willis
“My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.” ThinkingMenChildrenTwoFatherBlackSawsSeeingTreeStreetsBusinessmanVagrants Author:Toni Morrison
“I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.” WayFirstsTwoPastFilmGuyLordMillionsSeeingHundredCamerasDollarsFiftyMillion DollarsNelsonMotion PicturesPrepsLieutenants Author:William Monahan
“I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.” WantEyeWantedParentMy OwnSeeing Author:Fetty Wap