Capture Quotes - Page 17

• You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy. But I am really lucky. I don't understand it. I really, honestly, am much more focused on my personal life.

  Megan Fox

  Crazy, People, Trying

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• And we are in a strange conundrum. You can kill an American citizen overseas. But according to this administration, if you capture him in the United States, they've got to be read their Miranda rights.

  John McCain

  Rights, Administration, United States

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• It's definitely a difficult thing to capture and I mean, I've seen a ton of movies where I've believed the couple and I've seen a ton of movies where I have not believed them at all. Unfortunately, as an audience member, you check out if you don't believe them.

  Kristen Bell

  Couple, Believe, Mean

  "Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel Interview WHEN IN ROME". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Every network wants to capture new viewers, but that's up to the networks.

  Jack Kenny

  Want, Viewers

  Source: collider.com

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• You know what the reward is to capture Saddam. You don't even need to capture Saddam, just say where he is. It's $25 million. This is what I love about our priorities. We spend $25 million trying to get rid of Saddam Hussein. The Republicans spend $50 million trying to get rid of Gray Davis. It doesn't seem quite right.

  Jay Leno

  Priorities, Trying, Needs

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• Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Running, Writing, Adventure

  "Social poet captures the beautiful game". Interview with Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. October 9, 2013.

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• artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.

  Alan Alda

  Sweet, Artist, Frustration

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• I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.

  Elvis Costello

  Technology, Player, People

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.

  Anne Lamott

  Self, Stories, Golden

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. March 2012.

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• I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Memories, Writing

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com.

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• I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

  Eric Kandel

  Art, Views, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

  Vinod Khosla

  Optimistic, Technology, Electric Power

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

  Kiera Cass

  Photography, Splits, Exquisite

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• I chose to go to Arizona, because it was an opportunity to make something that I've never done. To work with different people and to have a good time when you're recording and to not have the whole thing be some sort of editing process in front of a computer, but to actually try and capture some sort of spirit.

  Joel Plaskett

  Opportunity, Editing, People

  Source: www.coltoneddy.com

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• The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.

  Lee Gutkind

  Hard Work, Reality, Creative

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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• One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.

  Dean Spade

  Order, People, Needs

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.

  James Arthur

  Reality, Thinking, Remembers Everything

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and ideas about how they should be. I think fiction can capture that kind of thing better than other genres because in fiction you can explore the feelings of your characters - the before and the after.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Country, Character, Emotional

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• I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.

  Dom Kennedy

  Confused, Want, Periods

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so I can make more of an impact when I do use it. A cause like One Billion Rising is something I want to scream about, and I want you to take that scream seriously because I don't fall out of nightclubs. I don't have photographers capture me spending untold amounts on a handbag.

  Anne Hathaway

  Fall, Impact, Ideas

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More in Her January 2013 Glamour Interview". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  People, Attention, Comedy

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

  Mary Jo Weaver

  Real, Names, Long

  Mary Jo Weaver (1993). “Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.

  Nancy Thayer

  Love, Husband, Fall

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• So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Effort, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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