Consuming Quotes - Page 5

• I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Want, Consumers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Self, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.

  Garth Kravits

  Knowing, Editing, Worry

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• I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend everyone edit a literary magazine at some point. It's time-consuming, but there's a lot to learn from other writers who are also learning. The patterns (twelve stories about whales in this batch?) are also interesting.

  Mary J. Miller

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Differences, People, Rehearsal

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

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• The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

  Malachy McCourt

  Children, Games, Media

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

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• There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Facts, Form

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had to be tested. And in this short amount of time, it's just very time-consuming and very stressful to ensure that you get it right.

  Frank Luntz

  Winning, Stressful, Recommendations

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• Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Ideas, Practice, Essentials

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated.

  Biz Stone

  Simple, Over You, Get Better

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

  Stewart Udall

  Oxygen, Oil, Three

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• There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

  James A. Michener

  Problem, Time Consuming, Only Time

  James A. Michener (2014). “Space: A Novel”, p.258, Dial Press

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• Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.

  Mark Shields

  Fun, Airplane, Police

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Email, Starting Out

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• Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.

  Paul Kagame

  Soldier, Littles, Resources

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year it's going to be true. With the rising populations, Yemen could be the first country in the world, or Sana'a the first major city in the world, to run out of water, that's from Yemeni hydrological engineers and the United Nations. Sooner or later, all of these people, from 7 to 9 billion, all of them want to live like America, will be consuming so much more water that some of the societies will hit a wall without more sustainable environmental practices.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Running, Wall

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• Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Commodity, Reason

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

  Alison Bechdel

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our lives. They do it without taxing us or regulating us, or making us suffer through tedious elections or political debates. They make their products and offer them to us in a way that pleases the consuming public the most. We can choose whether we want them or not.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Entrepreneur, Political

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• Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Emotional, Issues, Alliances

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2015). “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.

  Kurt Richebacher

  Keys, America, Generations

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• A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.

  Robin Sharma

  Passion, Special, Calling

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• Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

  Lawrence Reed

  Honesty, Self, Discipline

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