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  • Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adria Petty Quotes , Artist Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Encounters Quotes
  • I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Years Quotes
  • Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Law Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Belz Quotes , Taken Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Cynical Quotes