Productions Quotes - Page 35

• The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

  C. Wright Mills

  Way, Entertainment, Distraction

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• ... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Thinking, Hands

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

  Karl Marx

  Men, People, Savages

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.738, OUP Oxford

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• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  Edward Bernays

  Typical, Demand, Today

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

  Raymond Loewy

  Science, Thinking, Understanding

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• Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:-not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, -what idea he is called to represent.

  Victor Cousin

  Country, Men, Wind

  Victor Cousin (1832). “Introduction to the History of Philosophy”, p.240

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• If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then each of these parts can serve as the mould for the production of a replica of the other part, and the complex of two complementary parts thus can serve as the mould for the production of duplicates of itself.

  Linus Pauling

  Two, Molecules, Viruses

  Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences”, p.1119, World Scientific

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• As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Long, Democracy

  "The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism". Interviewed with Peter Jay, chomsky.info. July 25, 1976.

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• I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Book, Taken

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Production is the only answer to inflation.

  Chester Bowles

  Answers, Inflation

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• Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Men, Waiting

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• In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Energy, Development

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• The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Mean

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• All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

  Graham Swift

  Book, Pride, Years

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• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

  Eric Burdon

  Art, College, Years

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• I think my own strengths are in television production.

  Jim Henson

  Thinking, Television, My Own

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• The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

  James F. Byrnes

  Essentials, Germany, Levels

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• In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

  Wim Wenders

  Four, Film, Late

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

  Casey Kasem

  Team, Opportunity, Korea

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• The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

  Casey Kasem

  Bible, Two, Stories

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• My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.

  Claire Danes

  Character, Kidnapped

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• McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Design, Effort

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

  M. Ward

  Inspiration, Style, Records

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• I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

  Bob Balaban

  Creating, Littles, Rooms

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

  Bob Balaban

  Years, Chicago, My Family

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