Industry Quotes - Page 9

• I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

  Paul McCartney

  Men, Thinking, Games

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• Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

  Angela Merkel

  Hurt, Thinking, Example

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.

  Aly Michalka

  Girl, Thinking, Grace

  "Meet 'Hellcats' Stars Ashley Tisdale & Aly Michalka". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.

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• It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

  Helen Mirren

  Art, Philosophy, Independent

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• I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Movie, Games, People

  "Beyond the shoot-em-up: how gaming got killer stories" by Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2014.

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• This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, People, Creative

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• I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Thinking, Trying, Entertainment

  "E3 Interview: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Done, Economy

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• I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

  Alan Moore

  Mediums

  "Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman - Q&A". Interview With Subhajit Banerjee, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

  Alan Moore

  Giving Up, Rights, Years

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• It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Character, Games

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• There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

  Alan Moore

  Growing, Bigs, Distrust

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s 'Toxic Cloud' And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  Mandy Moore

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

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• When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

  Mandy Moore

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.

  Michael Moore

  Doctors, Doe, Pay

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• I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

  Robert Morgan

  Writing, Thinking, Creative

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• It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Awards, Reason

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• When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

  Alanis Morissette

  Order, Trying, Entertainment

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• We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

  Joe Murray

  Real, Estates

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• The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

  Elon Musk

  Demise, Rumours, Manufacturing

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

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• Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

  Elon Musk

  Winning, Years, Car

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

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• I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Hard Work, Technology

  "Master Of Creative Disruption". Interview with Logan Ward, www.popularmechanics.co.za. December 1, 2012.

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• In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Giving, Patents

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• One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Secret, Energy, Ugly

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• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Dramatic Life, Nerd

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