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• I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be a little bit more presto here. Hang on, this should be a bit more exciting, or I try to explain the scene to them, or I try to explain the context the notes are supposed to live in.

  Hans Zimmer

  Trying, Littles, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the director and just listen to him or her talk about the film - what they're trying to say, what they want the audience to understand or believe, and a thousand other similar questions. The director has most likely been living with the film for years before a composer is attached, and so the director's inclinations, desires, and understanding of the film are paramount.

  John Keltonic

  Believe, Writing, Years

  "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

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• When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Want, Scripts, Ends

  "Exclusive Interview with Chris Pine and Alex Kurtzman about 'People Like Us'". Interview with Jason Roestel, www.axs.com. June 27, 2012.

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• A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.

  Steve Weinstein

  Player, Cds, Age

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• I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

  Richard Simmons

  Past, Goal, Planning

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.

  Stephen Gillett

  Technology, Organization, Important

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• It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

  Bill Frisell

  Song, Phrases, Littles

  "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their notes and see what they've said. I don't criticize myself for making blunders here and there, because it's just natural. You write in chunks, and you may not remember that that sentence you wrote yesterday had the same word repeated three times. I do enjoy that. I love the feeling of repairing. Repairing is really nice.

  Steve Martin

  Nice, Writing, Editing

  "Steve Martin: The Powells.com Interview". Interview with Jill Owens, www.powells.com. November 29, 2010.

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• As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.

  Matt Smith

  Character, Smell, Directors

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Groups

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• I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it up a little bit. I'm keeping notes. I'm trying to keep up with this world and try to bring out a special every year.

  Jim Jefferies

  Writing, Ideas, Years

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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• One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.

  Rob Zombie

  Confused, Twists, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting all of my notes typed up, then scanning through the notes, trying to extract or find certain vignettes that seem like they might write well - that might have a potential for good energy, shape, etc. And then at some point I start stringing these together, keeping an eye on the word count.

  George Saunders

  Eye, Writing, Trying

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• Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and daily. On a side note to readers, any service or craft you give your heart to will give you the same effect. Don't be afraid to work less and play more! We are human. We didn't come here to hold down a dayjob. We came here to live and learn!

  Jason Mraz

  Heart, Play, Giving

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• People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

  Al Pacino

  Home, College, People

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Keys, Talking

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

  Nicki Minaj

  Creativity, Rapper, Drug

  Source: slumz.boxden.com

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• I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape

  Joan Didion

  Block, Different, Fiction

  "National Book Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Color, Water

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• Leaders encourage others to continue the quest and inspire others through courage and hope. Leaders give heart by visibly recognizing others' contributions to the common vision. With a thank you note, a smile, an award, and public praise, the leader lets others know how much they mean to the organization.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leadership, Mean, Heart

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

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• Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.

  Carlo Grante

  Thinking, Keys, Play

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• The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.

  Carlo Grante

  Interesting, Essentials, Variation

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• The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an expert in classical music. I don't want to say something that ends up in print and somebody comes running after me with a shovel, but they're taught for each note to stand alone in a very deliberate kind of way, which is really different than how notes are strung together in old-time music to create rhythm.

  Bruce Molsky

  Running, Together, Experts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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