Mediums Quotes - Page 40

• On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Thinking, Class

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• It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

  Richard Billingham

  Meaningful, Political, Intention

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• My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, New York, Responsibility

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• Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

  Bobby Seale

  Hate, Make Things Happen, Crap

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• Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

  Mark Cuban

  Video, Internet, Revenue

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• There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.

  Robert Carlyle

  Decision, Say Anything, Directors

  "Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales". interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.

  William Gibson

  Hbo, Wire, Television

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

  Denzel Washington

  Creative, Privilege, Expensive

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium. Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.

  Joshua Radin

  Matter, Moments, That Moment

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Dancing, Performing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Play, Radio

  "Neil Gaiman Interview". Interview with Trevor Valle, www.bitingdogpress.com.

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• Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Television, Want, Kind

  "A chat with Jim Gaffigan". Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.

  Terence McKenna

  Meat, Information, Made

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• Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

  Doug Ose

  Determination, Two, Fcc

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• A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

  Grace Helbig

  Pride, Negative, Television

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• Aggression is not a breed thing. Its a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Ideas, Mind

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• I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, School, College

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• Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

  Henry Selick

  Horse, Believe, Kids

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• What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

  Henry Selick

  Dark, Toys, Add

  "Henry Selick on his 'medium dark' stop-motion movie for Disney" by Rebecca Keegan, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 27, 2012.

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• We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

  James Gleick

  Thinking, Flow, Metaphor

  James Gleick (2016). “Time Travel: A History”, p.129, Pantheon

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• In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Character, Differences

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• The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

  Chad Harbach

  Form, Novel, Ultimate

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• The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.

  Peter Higgs

  Glasses, Light, Water

  "Peter Higgs' Big Day". Interview with Jessica Griggs, www.slate.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

  Nellie McKay

  Desire, Needs, Communicate

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

  Stan Brakhage

  Mean, Honor, Quality

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