Notes Quotes - Page 37

• When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I've met in real life.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Real, Character, People

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.

  Brian Chippendale

  Song, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

  Spencer Krug

  Stuff, Articles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you flop notes at the right time and you don't have to play stuff that would take seven years to learn.

  Zach Condon

  Player, Mirrors, Years

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• If I had cast someone else who didn't have that kind of timing, it would have been leaden and one note. But Ann [Morgan Guilbert] made her really human and really funny without being caricatured or over the top. She feels like a real person.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Real, Kind, Timing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

  Hector Elizondo

  Media, Space, Expectations

  "Valentine's Day - Hector Elizondo interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Play, Two

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Memorable, Guitar, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a "thank you" note instead of a hand-written card.

  Debra Messing

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.

  Sam Keen

  Voice, Events, Each Day

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

  Judith Guest

  Writing, Space, Brain

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• I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Letting Go, Care, Accepting

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.

  Sarah Steele

  Song, School, Home

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating.

  Declan Lynch

  Smart, People, Challenges

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• I'm learning how to work my voice. I got some songs that you probably wouldn't even know it's me singing on there. I will sit there and take 20 takes until I hit that note right. It's different on stage - you've got to hit the notes that one time.

  Dreezy

  Song, Voice, Singing

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

  Doris Lessing

  Years, Mind, Events

  Doris Lessing (2012). “Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, and then some years later I decided to show them and suddenly I was called a photographer. Same thing with my poetry. They're notes that I'd written in a book and it may be considered poetry.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Book, Writing, Years

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

  David Toop

  Mean, Ideas, Giving

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

  Kumi Naidoo

  Helping, Said, Protest

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Writing, Dialogue, Persons

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

  John Amaechi

  Basketball, Home, Player

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I could definitely rock out to Kraftwerk's "Tour De France," Tubeway Army, or Gary Numan. All of that stuff has an infectious beat, but with "Oh Yeah," I can't even identify what's going on. It sounds like typewriter keys, a couple of synth notes and then this really deep "Oh yeah," which I always picture as Andre The Giant on vocals.

  Margaret Cho

  Couple, Army, Keys

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.

  Sue Tompkins

  Iphone, Hands, Written

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing.

  Edward Said

  Pieces, Demand, Events

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Television viewership has been declining for a number of years. The internet has been blamed. Everything has been blamed. Except for what I think the problem is: that the networks own the shows, and they completely think that they make them. They don't any longer let the people who make shows just make them. The networks have notes about everything. They are intimately involved in every aspect of the process. And I think it's hurt the process.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Hurt, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: deadline.com

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