Notes Quotes - Page 39

• I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.

  Barbara Crampton

  Reading, Offering, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting to be written next. And the decision driving which one of them it should be was never based on how long it had waited or how many accumulated pages of notes I had.

  John Irving

  Book, Writing, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Singers, Heard

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• There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

  Jon Gordon

  Blue, People, Oscars

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• Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.

  John Lydon

  Running, Attitude, Real

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for your art, but I have been talking to a lot of younger, aspiring cartoonists who very quickly get discouraged if they aren't getting a lot of attention immediately. This can also be aggravated by artists who appear to be really quickly Tumblr-famous, and get lots of notes on their work.

  Liz Prince

  Art, Talking, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes" are what we should be aspiring to, but the Internet means something different to me because I've always been primarily interested in publishing physical books.

  Liz Prince

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't do all the background and the worldbuilding before I start the story. What I do is I work out the bare minimum I need to start the story, and often that really is a bare minimum - it's a character in a situation, and I know nothing about the character, I know nothing about the situation, and then I think about it for a long time, and make notes about where I think the story is going to go and so on, but I don't really make notes to do with the background or the magic system or the world.

  Garth Nix

  Character, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

  Amy Adams

  Apology, Abhorrent, Behaviour

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• In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

  Alfred Adler

  Style, Suffering, Opponents

  Alfred Adler (1964). “PROBLEMS OF NEUROSIS: A BOOK OF CASE HISTORIES”

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• When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Pieces, Thanks

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• He listens well who takes notes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Divine Comedy, Wells

  Dante Alighieri (2006). “Inferno: The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Canticle One”, p.122, Hackett Publishing

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• Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Thinking, Looks

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (29), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

  Warren Beatty

  Birthday, Men, Two

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• There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

  Robert Benchley

  Reading, May, Firsts

  Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”

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• The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Artist, Keys, Giving

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• I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

  Lewis Black

  Play, People, Bottles

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• 'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

  Mary J. Blige

  Life Is, Woody, Pears

  "High Note: Mary J. Blige on Her Best-Selling Perfume". Interview with Janna Johnson, www.elle.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Facts, And Love, Study

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli: Faith Is the Only Way Forward". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2011.

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• As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

  Christopher Bond

  Years, Vermont, Kind

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• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, June, Long

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• With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

  Jo Brand

  Character, Mean, Oil

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• I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

  Jeff Bridges

  "Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides" by Alex Pappademas, www.gq.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

  Benjamin Britten

  Bricks And Mortar, Fog, Color

  "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.

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• Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

  Robert Browning

  Faith, Fear, Character

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.178, e-artnow sro

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