Mediums Quotes - Page 27

• Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Communication, Development, Coercion

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.54, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

  Truman Capote

  Directors, Actors, Literature

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.271, Modern Library

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• Television is the medium of the 20th century.

  Hugh Downs

  Television, Century, 20th Century

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• Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.

  Billy Wilder

  Stupid, Book, Fighting

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• A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

  Hugh Jackman

  Actors, Directors, Film

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jul 12, 2013

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• A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Spring, Writing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.198, Grove Press

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• Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'

  Gabrielle Roth

  Stars, Moving, Mean

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.207, New World Library

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• How your customers learn about your product is part of your product. The medium is the message.

  Patrick Vlaskovits

  Messages, Customers, Products

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• I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

  Spike Lee

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Struggle, Wages

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• I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

  Henri Matisse

  Today, Normal, Aliens

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• I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

  Lars von Trier

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  "Lars von Trier Comes Out of the Dark". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 22, 2000.

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• If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

  Justin Timberlake

  Mean, Different, Done

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• You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to a medium that you can share with others.

  Bill Frakes

  Eye, Heart, Soul

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• Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

  Amy Cuddy

  Ideas, Influence

  "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are" by Amy Cuddy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2013.

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• The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.

  Lisette Model

  Real, Expression, Knowing

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Passion, Crosses, Eyeballs

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  Irving Penn

  Photography, Lying, Believe

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• Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Gun, Doe

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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• Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  Aaron Koblin

  Technology, Interesting, Long

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• The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.

  Steven Spielberg

  Air, Talking, Scary

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• Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Views, Media, Years

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• Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses the deepest questions in the universe. It generates emotion. It elicits empathy, promotes learning, creates an intellect you simply cannot get from any other medium. For me, it is air.

  Darynda Jones

  Art, Writing, Air

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• There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Home, Thinking, People

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• Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

  Harry Shearer

  Sleep, Kids, Writing

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