Cornelia Parker Quotes

When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself.

Cornelia Parker

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WorkMotherMyselfBe DifferentYou

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

Joan Kirner

EducationHappyBeingVeryMinister

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

John Muir

GodLightMountainCalmWindowsUs

I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.

Matthew Heineman

FireRestThinkAmericaLookEscape

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.

Matthew Ramsey

HatePeopleWantReactionMoreOver

A black or royal blue velvet blazer will look great with a pair of jeans and a black or navy turtleneck sweater - though it's a more casual look.

Roger Stone

GreatBlueBlackLookRoyalNavy

You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there's an awkward sex scene, and then they're together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn't happen in real life.

RJ Cyler

LifeGirlTogetherKissYouPerfect

When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end.

Rocky Carroll

WorkBeginningDeathEffortOpinion

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

Martin Parr

TechnologyMeThinkYouPerfectSay

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

Michael Pitt

ForgetRoomAnglesGoingDifferent

The 'Times' is understood to be almost the unofficial biographer of the country, in some strange way to be printing a kind of quasi-neutral truth or even, in some people's minds, slightly center-left version of reality.

David Shields

TruthPeopleRealityCountryKind

The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don't want to live in regret.

Chloe Kim

LiveRegretYouWantEverything

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

Christina Milian

SongLookingSomeoneTwoWithinJam

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