Driven Quotes - Page 39

• I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, People, Ego

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

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• Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Motivation, Character

  "Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.

  Joan Cusack

  Men, Needs, Avoiding Life

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

  Alan Moore

  Dark, Imagination, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Sweat, Sailing

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• As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

  Edward Norton

  Voice, Obsessive Compulsive, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward. I have a sturdy will. I have a big heart. I'm a decent guy. And I have a great gift. It's blunted me to the world in many ways.

  James Ellroy

  Christian, Heart, Dark

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.

  Matthew Bonifacio

  Character, Stories, Way

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.

  Halle Berry

  Dream, Life Changing, Teenager

  "Halle Berry Interview – Cloud Atlas – 'As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17…'". "Viva Press" Interview, www.viva-press.com.

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• My advice is that you go and do something that you are really driven to do. I loved to play baseball and, because I loved it, I practiced it. Some of us have limitations, but if you are passionate about something and if you have the drive, then you can accomplish it.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Play, Advice

  Source: baseballreflections.com

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• I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Self, Guilty

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

  Don DeLillo

  Dying, Want, Might

  "Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists". Book by Tom LeClair, Larry McCaffery, perival.com. 1979.

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• Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

  Michael Eisner

  Kings, Queens, Choices

  "On the web, content is king". Interview by Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

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• There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

  David Allen

  Decision, Doe, May

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Creating, Sound

  Interview with Steve Boxer, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is. Sometimes I feel a bit too driven - where it's all I think about. But I guess that's gotten me to where I am, so I can't complain.

  Tyler Oakley

  Thinking, Complaining, Matter

  "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Filled In, Silence, Television

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks Deadfall, Sons of Anarchy Season 5, Pacific Rim, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for Wb and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

  Doug Liman

  Falling In Love, Character, Tv Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.

  David Rockwell

  Memories, Inspiration, Passion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.

  David Rockwell

  Meaningful, Connections, Elements

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

  George S. Patton

  Determination, People, Goal

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• If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Hands, Wish

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Believe, Creativity

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• America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by powerful special interests with little regard for the Constitution.

  Ron Paul

  Powerful, Heart, Self

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• I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.

  Sasha Grey

  Sex, Past, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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