Ry Cooder Quotes

'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score.

Ry Cooder

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WorkPeopleCrazyCircusRealScore

It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.

Mia Wasikowska

AmazingYouFilmSetFilm SetMuch

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

Ron Silver

ThoughtEasyRealBe RealGoing

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

Jonathan Potter

WaterMeFreeBelieveBetterLook

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Donny Osmond

LifeGoalsTimeStepThinkLook

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.

Chris Hemsworth

CarTimePersonFirst TimeNever

What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.

David Shields

TodayYouWhyUnderstandWriteJust

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

China Mieville

LovedBuildingsAbandonedMonsters

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

Christopher Miller

PracticeWishPlayWithoutPiano

From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.

August Wilson

WorkLoveTimeArtCultureHonor

One is always attracted to pieces of theatre with great roles for women.

Phyllida Lloyd

WomenGreatTheatreAlwaysPieces

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Primo Levi

LiveBeautifulMeHouseSkinKnow

We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails.

Priyamvada Natarajan

ExplainWithoutWhereRelativity

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