Spontaneity Quotes - Page 11

• The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

  Melanie Brown

  Way, Life Is, Living My Life

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

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• Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Loss, Justice, Choices

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Power of Ideas”, p.27, Princeton University Press

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• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  Lance Morrow

  Sweet, Home, Crowds

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• The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

  Pearl Bailey

  Cooking, Preparation, Ingredients

  Pearl Bailey (1973). “Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook”, Harcourt

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• Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

  Bruce Campbell

  Thinking, Answers, Killers

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom, spontaneity and openness are emerging once again. It’s now recognized the future is open, not determined by the past. And this is true in many realms, the astronomical realm, the human realm, the meteorological realm in many ways.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Past, Way, Determined

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• I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

  John Gielgud

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

  Jimmy Page

  Music, Moving, Past

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• Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

  N. T. Wright

  Self, Way, Vices

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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Mean, Expression, Voice

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

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• I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

  Lusia Strus

  Balance, Actors, Levels

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• A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Spontaneous, Intimate, Venues

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• To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

  Sally Schneider

  Book, Writing, Moments

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• There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

  Martin Puryear

  Sculpture, Kind, Process

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• When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.

  Alexander McQueen

  Looks, Pieces, Embroidery

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• The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Children, Grace, Making Love

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.52, Seven Stories Press

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• I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Stories, Elements, Way

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• Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a set of discrete creations, it is not like that. But nevertheless, this spontaneity is constantly arising. And it is within this that is our freedom.

  Albert Low

  Mean, Life Is, Moments

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• The work is primarily subject-driven.  All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context, at a specific moment in time. The thoughtful preparedness that defines my working method actually facilitates spontaneity and allows me to embrace surprise. I always have a game plan but view it as merely the jumping off point.

  Gregory Heisler

  Thoughtful, Unique, Jumping

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• Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have to do in standup is create spontaneity, somehow; even though you've done this act a million times, you gotta look like you're almost just thinking of it now, to make it entertainer.

  Artie Lange

  Thinking, Looks, Done

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• It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

  Bill Condon

  Events, Television

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• I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action.

  Lee Unkrich

  Real, Cutting, Editing

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• I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

  Les Claypool

  Bigs, Believer

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

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• I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

  Tony Curtis

  Vegas, Las Vegas

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• I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Comedy, Spontaneous

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