Projects Quotes - Page 15

• After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

  Summer, Nice, Fall

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

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• With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

  Paul Allen

  People, Asking, Done

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• I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

  Douglas Booth

  Dream, Life Changing, Character

  "Douglas Booth and Billy Crudup to Star in LIFE AT THESE SPEEDS; Sam Rockwell Producing" by Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. January 11, 2012.

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• As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Decisions You Make, Important

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

  Atom Egoyan

  Mean, Actors, May

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

  Greg Evigan

  Eight, Interesting, Guy

  "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.

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• I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

  Greg Evigan

  Son, Rocks, Years

  "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.

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• I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

  Michael Ealy

  Men, Guy, Males

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• Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

  Zac Efron

  Thinking, Littles, Realizing

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• The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.

  Toni Morrison

  Zero, Taken, Writing

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• More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

  Fred Brooks

  Time, Gone, Calendars

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• Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

  Philip Kaufman

  Creative, Inspire, Directors

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• … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Maturity, Engineering, Snakes

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• One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

  John Carmack

  People, Suffering, Lessons

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• Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Science, Proposal, Invention

  "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project". www.w3.org. November 12, 1990.

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• The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Design, Heavyweights, Fleeing

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.182, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Jobs, Looks

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• To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Style, Degrees

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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• Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.

  Kim Garst

  Target Audience, Focus, Messages

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• You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

  Canibus

  Religious, Religion, Term

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• It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

  David Crystal

  Years, Together, Three

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• The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Creative, Letters

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• Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

  Paul Farmer

  People, Development, Haiti

  "Paul Farmer Examines Haiti 'After The Earthquake'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 11, 2011.

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• With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

  Renee Fleming

  Air, Singing, Force

  "Renée Fleming: Diva goes to the dark side" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• I think “The Book of Mormon” has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It’s something that 20 years from now people will still be talking about, hopefully. That’s my goal as an artist, as a creator, as a work for hire, is to choose projects that make people think, make people talk, and make people interested in having a dialogue.

  Josh Gad

  Book, Artist, Thinking

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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