Brian Eno Quotes

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Brian Eno

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It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.

Jimmy Smits

WorkCrazyPressureYouNakedOut

Every actor has to deal with what's on his plate, and I try to deal with doing the best work possible with the most challenging scripts. I don't base it on whether it's a feature film or a TV-movie or cable.

Jimmy Smits

WorkBestDoingActorPossibleTry

There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

HeroFeelCountryWallStreetRuin

We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

Andre Aciman

CellsOwnThingsProteinCallUs

If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.

Max Heindel

LifeStarsLiveSunFateBody

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

StoryThinkingSomeoneKindWhyUs

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

Stuart Appleby

GoodPersonalityGolfSayAlways

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

Tommy Bolt

SportsEnergyYouBackDownAhead

One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.

Rob Sheffield

BestWorldMomentsRockHearingOwn

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

SeeStandingShouldersMayGiant

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Ron Moody

LifeFatherStyleGenerationUncle

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

Michael Moore

PoliticalDoingRunOfficeFilm

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