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“That's always disappointed me, to see a guy in the crowd who doesn't look like he's having fun but in general if you just listen to the crowd it sounds like they're having fun. So I don't want to focus on the one guy who's not having fun. And by closing my eyes and just listening, I can't hear that he's not laughing but I can see that he's not laughing.”

Ifs Want Looks I Can Eye Guy Fun Sound Laughing Focus Listening Crowds Having Fun Disappointed Closing Just Listen Closing My Eyes

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.”

Ifs Trying Reality Film Sound Acting Air Stage Fronts Goes On Happenings Tricks Fishing

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.”

People Ifs Wells Book Ideas Real Seems Reading Sound Talking Example Bears Pages Honestly Real Life Tricks Dialogue Good Ideas Resemblance People Talking Reading Aloud

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.”

Ifs Feels Done Whole Moments Fun Sound Projects Determined Strikes Whole Life Worthwhile

Author:Steve Martin

“I don't know much about the music business, but for just general advice for someone trying to create things, as simple as this sounds, I think the best thing you can do is constantly try to improve upon your work. Always focus on that first and foremost, and leave everything else (marketing, image) completely secondary. Obviously, easier said than done when you're trying to make a living, but if you can move along those lines and earnestly try to make things that you really enjoy it can only benefit you in the long run.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Firsts Long Said Done Running Moving Enjoy Sound Can Do Lines Simple Focus Advice Easier Benefits Marketing Best Things Long Runs Music Business Easier Said Than Done

Author:Joe Rogan

“If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.”

People Ifs Facts Helping Would Be Sound Satisfied Like Something Grammy

Author:Lauryn Hill

“If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician, which is fine for rock and roll.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Song Sound Rocks Fine Musician Rock And Roll

Author:Creed Bratton

“A lot of people would say "well that's not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy" and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you're going to mess with that, we have a problem.”

People Ifs Wells Problem Sound Taken Passionate Reputation Mess Pussy Bad Reputation

Author:Joan Jett

“As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.”

Ifs Want Use Form Sound One Thing Stage Shapes Performances Atmosphere Imagery

Author:Marilyn Manson

“A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Sound Realizing Consciousness Practice Huge Wall Fool What If Sophisticated Foolishness Wrong Things Self Consciousness Erudite Beginning Writers

Author:Richard Bach

“First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.”

Ifs Firsts Ends Wisdom Sound Wise Depends Safe Injustice Affront Safe And Sound

Book:The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ...

Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ...

“Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.”

Ifs Wisdom Desire Found Sound Wise Mystery Fringe

Book:The Daodejing of Laozi

Source: The Daodejing of Laozi

“There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training.”

Ifs Humans Use Body Hands Together Sound Voice One Thing Air Arms Training Thirds Notes Working Together Frequency Violin Fiddle Human Voice Timbre

Author:Bruce Molsky

“Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.”

Ifs Would Be Sound

Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.”

Ifs Looks Sound Fiction Issues Science Fiction Sand Robotics Autonomous

Author:Peter Singer

“I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Writing Doe Different Stories Wanted Sound Race Love You Willing Foolish Love Story Goofy Apologetic Different Relationships

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.”

Ifs Believe May Different Play Feelings Sound Creativity Expression Type Picks Instruments Block Writer's Block

Author:Saul Williams

“I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach.”

“You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Ideas Bigs Sound Okay

Author:Sam Altman

“What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.”

“I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more important to get your music out there and if people want to hear it an mp3 form or whatever I'm fine with that, I just don't enjoy the sound of it at home for personal taste.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Important Home Form Used Enjoy Sound Stupid Fine Taste Selling Used To Be Realising Not Stupid Mp3 Personal Taste

Author:Butch Walker

“"Ladies and Gentlemen, we're about to begin boarding. If we could ask for your cooperation, please stay seated until you row has been called." ... That's what they say - but somehow, by the time it comes out of the speaker, it sounds like, "Everybody up and rush the door! Everybody up and try to squeeze your big fat butts in the small gate door area! Immediately! ... Do whatever you have to do to get on board. This is the last helicopter out of Vietnam!"”

Ifs Trying Has Beens Bigs Funny Lasts Asks Sound Comedy Doors Please Areas Fats Boards Gentleman Gates Cooperation Vietnam Speakers Helicopters Ladies And Gentlemen Please Stay

Author:Brian Regan

“She, uh, came out of the closet recently, my niece. Um... She announced to the family that she's a lesbian and... She's seven, did I mention that? And, uh, I don't even know if she knows what a lesbian is, but I support her completely. And, uh... I'll tell you what's heartbreaking. My sister punished her for it. Can you believe that? No pussy for a week. Which to us may not sound like... But when you're seven, you know, a week is a long time.”

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Author:Sarah Silverman

“Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.”

Ifs Giving Play Problem Film Actors Sound Sides Rooms Powerful Audience Too Much Huge Conversation Give Me Add Editing Toolbox

Author:Dave McKean

“The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is heard from philosophers such as Nietzsche or James, itself starts to grate and sounds shrill, as it often does, and when the relativist then offers concessions, the absolutist hears only insincerity. The war of words can often turn into a dialogue of the deaf, and this too if part of its power to arouse outrage and fury.”

Ifs Doe War Law Turns Sound Voice Heard Offers Lays Philosopher Dialogue Deaf Fury Outrage Roaring Concessions Insincerity Absolutism Grate

Book:Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed: A Guide for the Perplexed

Source: Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed: A Guide for the Perplexed

“I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.”

Ifs Thinking Sound Black Can Do White Imagine Color Periods Silent Bounds Mediums Filmmaking Black And White Entering You Can Do It Flexible Switching

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“If it sounds good to me and I hate my voice, so if I'm willing to listen to my voice over and over again, it's a hit. Guaranteed it'll be a hit.”

Ifs Hate Sound Voice Willing I Hate Voice Over

Author:Ginuwine

“You have to stay focused because a lot of things will break your confidence. But if you stay focused and want it bad enough you can achieve. I know that sounds like a PBS special, but it's true, straight up.”

Ifs Knows Want Enough Sound Break Achieve Special Focused Stay Focused Straight Up Pbs

Author:Chamillionaire

“I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Littles Play Courses Sound Normal Guitar If I Could Tunes Chords Slides Tuning Happy Man

Author:Ken Hensley

“I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton of Holby Blue fame and pick up my dog and cuddle him, that's all that matters. I couldn't care if some theatre reviewer thinks my American accent sounds a bit Welsh.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Matter Home Care Bits Sound Dog Fame Husband Picks Blue Theatre My Husband Accents My Dog Reviewers Welsh

Author:Joanna Page

“I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.”

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.”

Ifs Humans Heart Sound Brain Blood Week Willing Baby Majority Cells Code Abortion Organs Cleaning Thumbs Fluid Responding Liver Kidneys Fingerprints Ultrasounds Blood Cells

Author:John Piper

“Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.”

Ifs Should Light Science Speak Sound Wonder Knowledge Heard Lips Faster Boss Sync

Author:Scott Adams

“I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.”

Ifs Should Character Hands Reality Light Felt Sound Cameras Available Screens Suits Pilots Splits Crew Documentaries Premises

Author:Stephen Hopkins

“No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.”

Ifs Looks Hard Philosophy Action Literature Sound Statistics

Book:Cloak of Aesir

Source: Cloak of Aesir

“I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.”

Ifs Sound Guitar Quantity Sheer Guitar Sound

Author:James Hetfield

“There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mean Matter Use Might Science Values Understanding Sound Study Overcoming Let Me Difficulty Infinite Pursuit Small Parts Expenditures

Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.”

Ifs Hands Running Together Faces Force Felt Sound My Own Behinds Heard Pressure Hot Rising Breasts Gray Yellow Nurse Bowls Soup Rushing Corridors Supernatural Forces

Book:March

Source: March

“It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.”

“I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.”

Ifs Knows Want Mind Seems Kids Dies Grows Sound Marriage Crazy Married Connected Being Married

Author:John Burns

“In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.”

Ifs Way Self Turns Sound Records Chosen Vocal

Author:Ben Folds

“I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.”

Ifs Want Done Film Guy Sound Watches Special Effects Music Is Disappointed Special Effects Sound And Music

Author:Luke Ford

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