Productions Quotes - Page 9

• As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

  Clive Barker

  Theatre, Ephemeral, Charm

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• Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Real, Media, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production.

  Paul Hawken

  Moving, Intelligent, Self

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• Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Computer, Shots

  "Photographer Mary Ellen Mark's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

  Alvar Aalto

  Light, Views, Steel

  Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”

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• As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Firsts, You Like It

  "Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Independent, Work Out, Important

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• I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Character, Animal, Animated Series

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• I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

  Jordana Brewster

  Two, Projects, Company

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

  Michael Cerveris

  Father, Kids, School

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Thinking, Stories, Narrative

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• If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

  Michelle Forbes

  People, Cynical, Unhappy

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• There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Competition, Innovation

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