Productions Quotes - Page 21

• Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

  Lily Cole

  Fashion, Odds, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'

  Paddy Considine

  Stars, Cameras, Actors

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• Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

  Claire Tomalin

  Past, Two, Use

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• You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

  Ben Wheatley

  Long, Decision, Way

  "Ben Wheatley: master of the macabre". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.

  David Cunliffe

  Mean, Thinking, Government

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• I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Too Much, Injury

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• Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Development, Want

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.17

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• God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Eye, World, Miserable

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• We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

  Winston Churchill

  Theory, Curse, Referring

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• He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Perfection, Excellence

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• The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

  Joseph Addison

  Writing, Lapses, Genius

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.454

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• The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Secret, Depth

  "William Shakespeare". Book by Victor Hugo, Book V, Chapter I, 1864.

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stress, Writing, Thinking

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• Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fighting, Vaccines, Balance

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• The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Sitting, Matter

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.220, Faber & Faber

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• I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

  Luanne Rice

  Stars, Home, Silver Bells

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• [On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Suffering, Literature, May

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• War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

  Simone Weil

  War, Preparation, Important

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.16, Routledge

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• A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

  Samuel Rogers

  Reading, Men, Doe

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• There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Government, Paper

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.234, Penguin

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• The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.

  Ayn Rand

  Movie, Stars, Moving

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.459, Penguin

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• Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Military, War, Mean

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• Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Book, Writing, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

  Hannah Arendt

  Class, Expansion, Limits

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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