Input Quotes

• Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

  Stephen Cambone

  Focus, Output

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• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

  John Updike

  Faces, Blind, Deaf

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.252, Random House

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• Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!

  Kate Moss

  Names, Red Flags, Space

  "Kate Moss Muses on 20 Years at the Top". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 2, 2010.

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• And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

  Paul Reiser

  Editing, Acting, Done

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• The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

  Thomas Lennon

  People

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• We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

  Michael Shermer

  Eye, Thinking, Games

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• When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

  Michael Pitt

  Giving, Ego, Actors

  "Q&A with 'Last Days' star Michael Pitt". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.tailslate.net. July 21, 2005.

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• I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

  Oliver North

  Funny, Military, Stupid

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• Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stupid, Dumb, Actors

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• I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

  Peter Steele

  Running, Trying, Used

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• I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

  Richard Hell

  War, Media, Vietnam

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• The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Powerful, Doors, Matter

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• In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

  Kelly Lynch

  Directors, Actors, Body

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• The system should treat all user input as sacred.

  Jef Raskin

  Sacred, Should, Treats

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Men, Outlook On Life, People

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• I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

  Luther Allison

  Respect, Opportunity, Chance

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• A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

  Natasha Richardson

  Vision, Directors, Actors

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• Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

  John Anderson

  Government, Ideas, People

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• It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Real, Player

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• For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

  Elle Macpherson

  Thinking, Creative, Magazines

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• We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

  Jim Rohn

  Voice, Needs, Answers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 23, 2016

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• It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Would Be, Fiction

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• Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

  David Bowie

  Song, Mean, Interesting

  "5 Lessons for Creatives From David Bowie’s Remarkably Imaginative and Prolific Journey" by Chester Goad, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2016.

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• I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

  John Dykstra

  Engineering, Creative

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• I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

  Billy Corgan

  Ideas, Musical, Alive

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