Technique Quotes - Page 10

• Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

  Tom Colicchio

  Keys, Recipes

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• What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.

  Joan Collins

  Drama, Hard Work, School

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• If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

  Steve Coogan

  Character, Play, Laughing

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

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• I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

  Marion Cotillard

  Special, Sticks, Conscious

  "Marion Cotillard on La Vie en Rose and Oscars: The RT Interview". Interview with Alex Vo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 7, 2008.

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• Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

  David Cronenberg

  Kids, Trying, Inexperience

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• When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Class, Stories

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• I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

  Penelope Cruz

  Photography, Opportunity, Trying

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• Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Art, Taken, Soul

  "Deneuve hits out at 'soulless' Hollywood". www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

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• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Mistake, Past, Perfection

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.

  Walt Disney

  Fashion, Influence, Motion Pictures

  "Walt Disney : Conversations". Book by Kathy Merlock Jackson, 2006.

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• You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Stupid, Actors, Want

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• I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Years, Joy

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• It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

  Jacques Ellul

  Media, Use, Propaganda

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

  Brian Eno

  Speech, Stuff

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• If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

  Brian Eno

  Years, Skills, Long

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

  Arthur Erickson

  Country, Artist, Crafts

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• Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

  Bobby Flay

  Fishing, Cooking, Hamburgers

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• Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

  Renee Fleming

  Voice, Norm, Higher

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

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• Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Simple, Squirrels

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• Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Skills, Comedy

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt: the new Heath Ledger?" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2009.

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• Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

  Kirk Hammett

  Player, Guitar, Reacting

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• The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Dazzling

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• You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Practice, Moments

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• A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

  Garrett Hardin

  Ideas, May, Littles

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Mean, Mathematical Equations

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 27-28, 1978.

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