“I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.” WantMeanCareChoicesProcessDown AndWhat You WantCoreArtisticMaking ChoicesArtistic Process Author:Mike Leigh
“I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.” WantAmericaDealsClassGrowing UpGrowingStressCoreDefinedWorking Class Author:Geoff Dyer
“I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.” WorldWayWantSaidBigsWantedCertainBornTasteLimitsExperienceRoundsCoreInnocenceLayersChunksBiting Author:Abba Kovner
“If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.” IfsWantMovingCertainCan DoOne ThingEmotionalFineStriveCore Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for themselves - while Liberals just seem to want a better world.” ThinkingWorldWantSeemsTodayPoliticsDifferencesCoreLiberalismConservatism Author:Derek R. Audette