Notes Quotes - Page 30

• Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Years, Directors, Given

  Harvey Weinstein Preps U.K. Debut of 'Finding Neverland' Musical" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 14, 2012.

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• As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

  George M. Cohan

  Thinking, Play, Ideas

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• When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Exploring Things: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson On 'Anomalisa'". Interview with Brian Tallerico, www.rogerebert.com. December 29, 2015.

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• They would send me notes on what's going on, and we would pitch in and talk about what we wanted to talk about on the show. I just really did my homework. It was more like a real job for me. Doing this talk show was like, "Wow, this is what they do?!" I can't even imagine doing it every day.

  Tameka Cottle

  Jobs, Real, Wow

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

  Alber Elbaz

  Stories, Scent, Emotion

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in that middle area, it was really hard. It was like a passage. And many singers go through this and work it out. But I realized in jazz, I could just take advantage of that and take advantage of having a voice that was very different in different areas.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Teacher, Strong, Voice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.

  Kaija Saariaho

  Art, Writing, Past

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Black, Body

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I know some artists who come out of country music and the three sessions a day work ethic where you walk in, and you're told you play this note, this note, and this note, and you don't vary it. I know that works great for some people. It wouldn't work for me.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Artist, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Nice, Mean, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.

  D. A. Carson

  Expression, Maps, Pages

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

  Richard Flanagan

  Forgiving, Experts, Terror

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

  Akhil Sharma

  Memories, Taken, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen them and know them - some of them I know really well. Although the stories are sometimes gritty and unsettling, my hope is that in the end they hit a positive note.

  Arthur Bradford

  Book, Character, People

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need to be a musician to do records like this, so I think me playing guitar for so many years and listening to rock 'n' roll and real music helps me when I work with vocalists like Lana Del Ray and Miley Cyrus.

  Cedric Gervais

  Real, Thinking, Rocks

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• When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Kids, Doors, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave.

  Edan Lepucki

  Writing, Progress, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.

  Ronee Blakley

  Doe, Needs, Should

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing” is a hard song to perform, I was worried that I was not going to reach that significant note that is at the end of the song. Thank god, Steven loved it! He was the nicest and friendliest judge that I have met. He also invited me to chat with him whether I had free time on the Idol set.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Song, Idols, Laughing

  "A Conversation with Jessica Sanchez". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. January 19, 2016.

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• It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.

  Gail Zappa

  Nice, Essence, Laughing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.

  Don Gonyea

  Events, Hitting, Hearing

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• There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life.

  Pam Houston

  Beautiful, Running, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would let me have it. I could be on the other side of the house doing my voice lessons and she would scream, "Drop your jaw for those long notes."

  Eddie George

  Voice, Long, House

  Source: www.ebony.com

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