Visuals Quotes - Page 31

• In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

  Peter Godfrey-Smith

  Magic, World, May

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• There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

  Bill Frakes

  Cameras, Stories, Want

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• Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.

  Megyn Kelly

  People, Appearance, Talk To Me

  "TV's Wonder Women". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. January 27, 2012.

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• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  Gavin Bryars

  Art, Writing, College

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• I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Editing, Actors, Crafts

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• There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

  David Cook

  Song, Emotional, Theater

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Memories, Years, House

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Art, Patterns, Chaos

  "AUTHOR INTERVIEW - Accidental Tourist / Diana Gabaldon reveals the inspiration for her popular time-travel series" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. January 26, 1997.

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• A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

  Elliott Erwitt

  "Best in show" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2003.

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• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  Larry Wall

  Oatmeal, Computer, Fingernails

  Usenet article, 1994.

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• Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

  Robert Delaunay

  Light, Movement, Sensibility

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• I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

  Terry Gross

  Reality, Risk, Needs

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• I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Writing, Thinking, Dialogue

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• Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

  John Hench

  Cities, Lasts, Parks

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• Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

  Michael Imperioli

  Unique, Cities, Numbers

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• I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

  Brian Jacques

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

  Fran Kranz

  People, Roles, Having Hope

  "Fran Kranz Talks The Cabin in the Woods, Much Ado About Nothing, Death of a Salesman and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Communication, Culture, Levels

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• Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

  Terry Zwigoff

  People, Hiv, Stories

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• I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

  Kerry King

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Thinking, Tape, Attention

  "SXSW ’12: Mark Mothersbaugh Confirms He’s Scoring ‘Lego,’ Talks Working On Wes Anderson’s ‘Bottle Rocket’ & More" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

  B. J. Novak

  Opportunity, People, Design

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

  Leo Ornstein

  Ears, Patterns

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• When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

  Marisha Pessl

  Song, Writing, Character

  "Random Rules: Marisha Pessl" by Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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