Process Quotes - Page 17

• I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Greatness, People, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

  Balthazar Getty

  Believe, Guy, Studios

  "Balthazar Getty Faces Himself". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

  Dave Eggers

  Self, Fiction, Artistic

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.

  Dave Franco

  Guy, Brain, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Writing, Ashes

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.

  Richard Ayoade

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are all in the process of becoming.

  Audre Lorde

  Graduation, Becoming

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• My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

  Adria Petty

  Artist, Talking, Knowing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

  Richard Gere

  Jobs, Character, Personality

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun.

  Kate Bush

  Fun, Thinking, Joy

  "A Demon In The Drift: Kate Bush Interviewed". Interview with John Doran, thequietus.com. March 21, 2014.

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• I'm a huge fan of process. Even if it's a movie that I don't think is quite as successful, I'm really intrigued by the process of it.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Successful, Thinking, Fans

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Art, Thinking, Personality

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things.

  Duncan Roy

  Looks, Way, Knows

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There was never a really serious, thought-out process for delivering arms appropriately.

  Guy Lawson

  Arms, Serious, Delivering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

  Debbi Fields

  Giving Up, Keys, Entrepreneur

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Source: feathertale.com

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• I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Might, Next

  "Interview with the Master of Suspense, Dean Koontz (part 1)". Interview with Trisha Sugarek, www.writeratplay.com. June 28, 2014.

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• Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

  Joko Beck

  Teacher, Disappointment, Discovery

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• I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.

  Jean Houston

  Thinking, Civilization, Levels

  "Mavericks of the Mind: Conversations for the New Millennium". Book by David Jay Brown, Rebecca McClen Novick, mavericksofthemind.com. 1993.

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• Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

  Larry Wall

  Past, Worrying Too Much, Important

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.

  Anita Roddick

  Loss, Doe, Suitcases

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• My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel like I want to transfer it from the notebook to the page, I do, and then comes this very strange process which is difficult to describe in that I'll write until I get stuck or I can't go any further or I'm boring myself or whatever and then I might go to another poem.

  Rita Dove

  Notebook, Eye, Writing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

  Alain Badiou

  Ethics, Possibility, Treats

  Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.16, Verso

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• Failure is part of the process of success.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Rich Poor, Failure In Life, Rich And Poor

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.151, Robert Kiyosaki

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