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• Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.

  Richard Sherman

  Inspiration, Average, Drawing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.

  Takashi Miike

  Long, Trying, Beginners

  Source: collider.com

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• [Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.

  Zack Snyder

  Real, Writing, Different

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.

  Stephen Lang

  Character, Interesting, Guy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.

  Richard Gere

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Healing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.

  Grant Morrison

  Cutting, Careers, Editors

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

  Grant Morrison

  Grateful, Writing, Unorthodox

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.

  Grant Morrison

  Mean, Want, Might

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

  Michael Ian Black

  Jobs, Character, Play

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that.

  Danny Boyle

  Fall, Mean, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.

  Nick Cave

  Reading, Pulse, Use

  "Nick Cave’s Object Permanence" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

  Tom Brady

  Thinking, Games, Preparation

  "Tom Brady on Deflategate, Gisele and Donald Trump". Interview with John Carucci, www.boston.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.

  Richard Gere

  Skills, Play, Feelings

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Important, I've Changed

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Beautiful, Strong, Simple

  Interview with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in because you can't solve the problem. Violence is always the last solution, but unfortunately, in cinema, it's the first solution, because it's easy. And it's often too easy.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Cinema, World, Lasts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Way, Internet, Creation

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book - APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I have always valued the care for my body, and my mind and had holistic approach to life. I always thought this is utmost importance for my tennis.

  Novak Djokovic

  Tennis, Mind, Body

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• I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

  Alan Cohen

  Song, Wall, Trying

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• So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, Army, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

  Karen Armstrong

  Differences, Mind, Receptive

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

  Judi Dench

  Roots, Coming Out, Rooted

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Community, Empowering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

  Sean Penn

  Mean, Rights, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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